The 360-Degree Feedback Illusion
Why organisations keep measuring what the brain cannot deliver and formalising what fear then destroys. Organisations love the fantasy that...
Why Accountability Faults Grow Back
Why Accountability Faults Grow Back. You can redraw the lines. The culture underneath will blur them again. Organisations have fixed...
The Death of Annual Objectives
The Death of Annual Objectives and the Deeper Problem Underneath. Why fixing the calendar isn’t enough, and what actually displaces...
THE PERFORMANCE MANIFESTO
THE PERFORMANCE MANIFESTO. For leaders who refuse to manage fiction and choose to design for reality. 1. Performance is what...
The Engagement Crisis
Employee Engagement Is a Readout, Not a Target Engagement sits at historic lows. The global figures hover around a quarter...
The 80/20 Trap: What the Pareto Rule Does to a System
The 80/20 Trap: What the Pareto Rule Does to a System When You Optimise By It The Pareto principle, 80%...
Forced Ranking Doesn’t Measure Performance
Forced Ranking Doesn’t Measure Performance. It Manufactures the Behaviour That Destroys It. Plenty of organisations still reach for employee ranking...
Rethinking DEI: Beyond Optics, Toward Substance
Rethinking DEI: Why Representation Is a Metric, Not an Outcome Diversity, equity, and inclusion are everywhere in corporate life, from...
Challenging the Status Quo of Performance Assessments
Rethinking Performance Assessments: Why the Ritual Survives Its Own Failure Few practices are as deeply embedded in organisational orthodoxy as...
Performance Management in a Changing Landscape – Redefining Success
Redefining Success: Why Performance Is a Proven Architecture, Not a Posted Result Every conversation about performance management skips the question...