Measuring employee performance?
Recently I was asked if time and results were the only things you could use to measure employee performance. Here's a snippet of my response.
The most important thing to remember when measuring performance is that you are trying to measure the things that make the most difference (not just the things that can be measured). The problem is that many of the things that make the most difference are not easily quantifiable.
Yes, I know I need flat abs
I was on LinkedIn earlier today and looking up the profile of a former colleague, wanting to get back in touch with him. LinkedIn had placed a Google-driven Ad next to the profile...
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Federal Computer Week (FCW.com) recently published an interesting piece written by John Moore about the use of APIs and development of mashups for use by government managers. Titled "Getting on the same page", the 1200+ word article cites the...
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Jim Berkowitz’s blog today makes mention of a rather amazing interview with Harry Debes, CEO of Lawson Software, in which Debes predicts that the SaaS “industry will collapse,” starting with Salesforce.com, in two years. I presume that to save...
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Learn how to monitor web pages using Google Docs. This is useful if you want to watch shopping sites like ebay or Amazon for any changes in the product price. RSS feeds have completely changed the way we consume information on the web. You no longer...
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One of the most common questions I get is "how long should we put aside for the actual review". My answer is it depends on a number of...
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