Blame Cultures In a recent blog post describing how feedback control works and its importance to the effective functioning of any organization, I mentioned that organizations that have blame cultures are much less well able to respond rapidly to problems discovered lower down in the organization. Through the deployment of Talent Chaser’s Performance Appraisal and…
Management’s highest priority is employee productivity. Inevitably this means that the relatively small number of managers in every organization is faced with the challenge of monitoring a large number of employees. In response to this challenge, designers of today’s organizational structures turned to the Panopticon. The design of this building invented by the English philosopher Jeremy…
Micro-Managing In a recent blog post describing how feedback control works and its importance to the effective functioning of any organization, I mentioned that organizations that are micro-managed are much less well able to respond rapidly to problems discovered lower down in the organization. Through the deployment of Talent Chaser, we have discovered that this…
Frequent Appraisals Through the deployment of Talent Chaser, we have found that the very best way to get managers to face up to performance problems is to require them to undertake performance appraisals frequently. Currently, while many organizations measure the performance of their employees annually, less than 15% do this on a frequent basis. When…
The Need for Rapid Response As the world has become more fast-changing and complex, planning has become much more difficult. Take, for example, the challenges associated with launching a new product. Not that many years ago, the market reacted in a more leisurely manner. Immediately after launch, initial sales would be to early responders. Only…
