As the end of the year approaches, managers and employees approach the season (no, not that season) with dread. It’s performance review time.
At worst, performance reviews can be an exercise in frustration, tension, fruitless efforts to retrieve memories of untracked goals, and sometimes evasion and whitewashing. But at its best, the performance review can be [...]

One of the easiest things a manager can do is hire the wrong person.
A good way of avoiding that unfortunate outcome is to hone your interviewing skills. The past several years have seen an upsurge in popularity of “behaviorally-based interviewing” which asks the candidate to describes actions he or she has actually taken rather than [...]

Think only those with direct reports need to know how to manage people? Think again.
The days are gone when we could succeed by keeping our eyes down on our desks, doing our own well-defined jobs and going home. It’s a good bet that, if you think about it, you’ll recognize many times when a project’s [...]

Everyone is talking about goals. How do you know what goals to identify. Francisco Dao writes in Inc. magazine:
The most frightening trend seems to be goal setting by the process of wishful thinking. Setting the right goals is a tricky matter. If you aim too low, then the goals become trivial, but if you make [...]