Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2012

He goes so far as to report a silver-bullet fix to this situation: "Just name the right manager. No amount of pay and benefits will solve the problems created by a manager who has no talent for the task at hand.". This matters so much for two very basic reasons.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

In a pattern that would become familiar to today’s innovation thinkers, Worthy reports, “the then managements of Sears and Wards alike failed to grasp the significance of these new developments.”. Quinn write “It is no longer news that over the past five years. But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924.

Retail 8

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Your company might not be as extreme as Jack Welch’s GE, which famously relied on forced rankings to cull weaker managers (a system still in use by more than half of Fortune 500 firms as of 2012), but chances are your company has given you a number that puts you in a specific spot on the employee continuum. So now the U.S.

Performance Review 10

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