Leading Change
The 2017 Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize
Emilio J. Castilla’s article “Achieving Meritocracy in the Workplace” wins the 2017 Beckhard Prize.
Emilio J. Castilla’s article “Achieving Meritocracy in the Workplace” wins the 2017 Beckhard Prize.
The key for managers is less emphasis on how they rate employees and more on how they talk about performance improvement.
Accelerating compression of both revenues and profits in some businesses can be fatal, and fast.
People are more likely to follow rules if there’s more variety in the order in which they do tasks.
This year’s winning article is “Accelerating Projects by Encouraging Help,” by Fabian J. Sting, Christoph H. Loch, and Dirk Stempfhuber.
New research shows bias exists even in merit-based systems — but a data-centric approach can help.
Sustainability programs will not make long-term progress unless boards change how they operate.
Kyocera Corp.’s distinctive management system seeks profitable growth by extreme decentralization.
Project networks provide the expertise to handle complex, knowledge-intensive team projects.
With appropriate processes, virtual teams can even outperform their colocated counterparts.
There comes a time when corporate governance has little influence over performance, because competitive forces cut away at management fat.
Strategy can be thought of as a loop with four steps: making sense of a situation, making choices, making things happen and making revisions.
Coaching increases performance, productivity and job satisfaction at all levels.
It can be good or bad, depending upon what kind it is and in what cultural context it occurs.