Sales targets and sales commissions combine two of the oldest and worst follies of management wisdom on performance of organizations – managing/measuring performance with targets or KPIs and managing/improving performance […]
Risk Management is a hot topic. Risk managers are in great demand. Life is good. Or so it seems. Reality unfortunately intervenes. The problem with risk management is that is […]
Let us start by agreeing what we are actually talking about here. The definition of prejudice according to Merriam Webster: 1: injury or damage resulting from some judgment or action of another […]
Why do people behave the way they do? Okay, we want to limit ourselves here to behavior in organizations. There is the reoccurring discussion of the ‘one bad apple’ that […]
Rewards especially in their linkage to motivation are definitely critical topics and defy an all-encompassing or easy answer. What ultimately motivates people can be as individual as people and totally […]
A leader per se is a title of authority. The leader of a country or an organization is represented by the person of the highest executive authority in the respective […]
Consultants, Talent Managers and ‘academia’ are completely sold on and preoccupied with turning promising young talent into ‘Leaders’ and they are causing considerable harm with this. Every consultant worth his/her salt seems […]
Companies with dodgy management resemble countries with dodgy government to the point. In order to ‘rally the troops (=populace)’ they need to highlight external forces as their major threat to well-being: […]
You can’t but feel sympathy towards banks and the people who run or work within them. They just managed to talk themselves out of one dreadful crisis and along comes […]
Since the financial meltdown, corporate ethics seem to experience a new renaissance. CSR and ethical behavior of C-level managers is portrayed as the solution to all that is wrong. Well, […]
