Top 10 (Bad) Incentive Assumptions

This post from @IncentIntel is timely as we head into silly season: performance and rewards time. I especially liked the two below; communications about incentives are too often treated as a ”once and done” event: 3. If the award is valuable enough you don’t need to communicate and remind them of the award opportunity. … 5. [...]

Difference between hard and soft elite disciplines

In my last post I referred to Steve Hsu’s (on Twitter @hsu_steve) post on credentials and elite performance.   Hsu distinguishes between the ”hard” and “soft” elite, where law, consultancy, and investment banking firms are… “soft” elite firms, whereas I will refer to hedge/venture funds, startups and technology companies as “hard” elite firms.  …In the latter category performance [...]

Hamel’s Stretch Goals for Management

I’m working through the pile of links I’ve accumulated.  Gary Hamel’s 25 Stretch Goals for Management caught my eye, if nothing else because I liked the challenge they attempt to address: What is it about the way large organizations are currently managed that will most imperil their ability to thrive in the decades ahead; and [...]

Tout your winners

PMOs too often get painted as the dour “project police”.  Our willingness to deliver results without demanding attention and praise is one of the more attractive character traits of project management culture.  But as noted in Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin’s post on The Million-Dollar Question: What’s the Value of a PMO?, delivering results quietly can be a [...]