Turning potential into performance

When employers focus too much on candidates’ potential — the best they could do if they were motivated to do their best — they forget that the critical outcome they should try to predict is what people are actually likely to do once they are in the job, in particular their typical performance.

Haier’s Micro-enterprises

HAIER changed from Monolithic Businesses to Micro-enterprises. In most organizations there’s little that supports bold thinking and doing. Old assumptions get challenged only once the business has hit a wall. Not so at Haier. Every Micro-enterprise is charged with pursuing ambitious goals for growth and transformation – known internally as “leading targets”. Rather than taking last […]

11 management priciples that shake things up – by Elon Musk

No large meetings unless they’re of value to the entire audience. Keep them short. Don’t have frequent meetings unless the matter is truly urgent. Resolve it; stop meeting. If you are not adding value to a meeting, walk out or drop off the call. Don’t use acronyms and nonsense words for objects, software, or processes. Avoid […]

Winning teams – “the Fist”

Leadership tims by Mike Krzyzewski, head coach of the Duke Blue Devils. Teamwork is the foundation of Coach K’s success. The topic is something he’s studied closely, beginning with his education at West Point. It’s no coincidence that he delivers one of his most famous strategies in the form of an analogy. “I look at […]

Patty McCord – former chief talent at Netflix

Patty McCord at The Way We Work 8 lessons on building a company people enjoy working for click here for the video at TED

SalaryBar – work hard, play hard, get paid

Money is not the most important thing in the world. But a solid #salary sure as hell helps, and you deserve a fair compensation for your efforts. SalaryBar offers a detailed, unbiased salary benchmark. We combine the most extensive algorithm in the market, with the human touch of our SalaryBar tenders. The only data we’ll never […]

Reid Hoffman – Masters of Scale – make everyone a hero

Getting Comfortable with the Uncomfortable… Erik Hiep

Last summer my son graduated at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. He went to Johannesburg for an internship at a big corporation, came back and told me: “Dad, I am 21 and I am not going to sit in an office behind a screen for the rest of my life… “ “I need […]