Employers

by Joseph Grenny Renowned restaurateur Danny Meyer likes to tell newly promoted supervisors that they have just been given the “gift of fire.” As a boss they now have a new and potent power, but Meyer wants to ensure they understand the appropriate — and inappropriate — uses of this gift. Fire, Meyer explains, can…

by Peter Bregman John was doing his best to be calm, but his frustration was palpable. Jeanine was explaining that there was little chance her group was going to make the numbers for this quarter. “Honestly?” she said. “The numbers weren’t realistic to begin with. It was really unlikely that we were going to make them.”…

by Liz Ryan How can it be that no one thought to abolish an old law prohibiting women from changing their hair style without their husband’s permission?  We need to learn this lesson: it’s easier to enact rules than to remove them, even years after our old rules have ceased to serve us. We do…

by Josh Bersin Times have changed. More and more companies have decided to radically change (read “scrap” or “re-engineer”) their performance appraisal process. Last week at our research conference we spoke with Adobe, Juniper, Kelly Services, and a variety of other companies who have decided to do away with traditional performance ratings and dramatically change…

Jobs Go Unadvertised as Managers Rely on Their Own Contacts. By LAUREN WEBER and LESLIE KWOH John Nottingham says he was planning to hire a new design manager eventually. But when he heard a talented fellow alumnus of his design school was looking for a job, he wasted no time: He created an opening and…