A research-based guide to performance appraisal written for real-world practitioners

A timely, useful and practical collection of chapters confronting and posing solutions to some of the more thorny performance management problems and dilemmas facing HR practitioners today. Practitioners would be wise to acquire this informative volume and to use it as a tool for developing leading-edge performance management systems.
--Edward M. Mone, HR division manager/strategic planning and development, AT&T

Part of the successful SIOP (Society of Industrial and...

Tap the Power of Alliance Networks

Inspired by the so-called virtual corporation, the opportunistic formation of short-term strategic pairings is the chief means by which today's companies are realizing growth. In The Power of Two, two acknowledged business-alliance experts take readers step-by-step through a proven, powerful method for successfully building a network of strategic alliances and for managing such networks via an alliance manager. Packed with examples, augmented with a wealth of assessment tools and charts, it's the most authoritative, user friendly guide to...

New Tools for Challengng the Status Quo

Immensely readable, this work bolts together the image or theory and the reality of what is required to change the performance of an enterprise. Whether the challenge is renewal or fundamental change, this book delivers real-life depictions that will help all who invest the time.
--Richard A. McGinn, president and COO, Lucent Technologies, Inc.

Stand on the front lines of innovation with today's top business leaders. Throughout this page-turner, archconsultant David Nadler leverages twenty years of work with many of the...

In a world where individuals too often feel spent and uninspired on the job, leadership that fails to incorporate the invigorating power of spirit is nothing short of incomplete. Leadership and Spirit gives all of us the perspective and guidance we need to invest ourselves, our fellow workers, and our entire organizations with the essential sense of purpose, commitment, and fulfillment that spirit can confer.
Author Russ Moxley of the Center for Creative Leadership shows leaders at all levels how they can link leadership and spirit to spawn a more vibrant and essential brand of...

Of all the decisions a manager or business owner must make, few will have a greater impact on the ultimate success or failure of that business than the decision of which employees to hire. Yet for many managers successful hiring lies in the mysterious province of plain dumb luck. High-Impact Hiring, however, can change all that. Here, work performance experts Rosse and Levin reach above and beyond quick fixes and fads to present those who hire with a rigorously tested, comprehensive framework for making sound hiring decisions based on a candidate's capacity for high performance.

The next-step book for managers who are charged with implementing their company's strategies.

In this hands-on book, Timothy J. Galpin outlines the steps managers need to take so they can confidently implement corporate strategy within their departments and divisions and throughout their organizations. The author bridges the gap that so often exists between strategy and action, and offers the tools managers need to translate plans into results-oriented strategic change. In addition, this practical book outlines the foundations of strategic planning, presents a conceptual model...

Here, authors Lisa Friedman and Herman Gyr, internationally respected organizational change consultants, define the Dynamic Enterprise as one whose people can look into the future, see the big picture, and create the right changes.

Friedman and Gyr describe how the Dynamic Enterprise empowers its people to build clear, collaborative strategies and translate them into action. And they present tools and strategies for making critical decisions in the midst of chaos, as well as for creating an environment that enables people to effect coordinated change at every organizational...

Harness the Boundless Power of Knowledge

Take a fascinating glimpse into the not-too-distant future. In The Infinite Resource, seventeen visionary thinkers explore knowledge--the only inexhaustible source of competitive advantage--as the juggernaut of an remarkable new order whose advent is fast rAndering today's business conventions obsolete. Their incisive observations include up-to-the-minute examinations of knowledge-change initiatives currently under way at Bell Atlantic, MCI, Lufthansa, and other forward-thinking companies. Filled with fresh ideas, perspectives, and voices,...

Facing an explosion of workplace complexity, many executives choose a team-supported approach to organizational leadership over more traditional leadership models. Executive Teams provides both CEOs and senior team members themselves with an unprecedented set of insights and strategies they can use to build and maintain teams that live up to their full potential. Team members get ideas for: **Implementing strategy **Leading transformations **Changing organizational culture . . . and much more - I strongly recommend this book] to all those in charge of, on, or involved with executive...

Empower Your Business to Succeed by Learning

?How Organizations Learn gets to the practicalities and realities of organizational learning. This is not a fad; it's the outline of effectiveness for organzations of the future.?

?Parick Canavan, corporate vice president and director of global leadership & organization development, Motorola

In this essential volume, authors DiBella and Nevis outline exactly what it means to be a learning organization. And they offer sound advice on how to increase the learning capabilties of your own company. Here you will...