Organizations are complex entities made up of people. Their success often hinges not on what is said but on what is understood. Misunderstandings can arise when there is a disconnect between what is ...

Employees frequently have to deal with demands for improved performance. The demands are typically accompanied by simplistic solutions, such as fire more people, tighten your performance standards or ...

Every company has a culture. If leaders don't work to establish an organizational culture, it develops on its own. That's not always a good thing. There's a complex relationship between culture and ...

Organizations are nothing but a collection of people. How that collection of people connects with what they see, reveals—or conceals—opportunities for organizational performance. The word opportunity ...

The chances are good that you've gone through some form of employee review if you've ever worked for an organization. This process is often dreaded by both the employee and manager because the ...

A high-performance organization gets better results than its peers over time. These results show up in higher revenues and profits, highly satisfied customers, owners wanting to invest, employees who ...

While the general consensus regarding stretch goals is that they boost drive, innovation, and improve organizational performance, new research shows that this is the exception, and not the rule. For ...