Alternatives to the annual performance review
Companies are abandoning the age-old tradition of the annual performance review. What can possibly replace it?
Category : strategy-and-innovation
Dispatches from China
Haier's quest for the perfect egg
White goods maker Haier is trying out ideas from manufacturing and internet technologies to egg production. Result: Efficiency at China's egg farms has improved tremendously
Firing the Annual Performance Review
Why the annual performance review is finally getting the pink slip. The first of a two-part article
The Gist
Ideas from outside can jumpstart your innovation effort
Every industry thinks it is unique and has little to learn from someone else. Ramon Vullings and Marc Heleven’s book, 'Not Invented Here: Cross-Industry Innovation', shows how you can learn from other industries
Stories At Work
Interested in a 20% increase in sales?
Put your storytelling skills to work to be a better salesperson
New Rules of Business
Improve customer satisfaction at minimal cost: Convert customers into 'employees'
Involve customers and cede control over certain activities by providing them an obstacle-free, easy-to-navigate and secure platform to perform tasks
The Robots Will Take Our Jobs. Then What?
The writing is on the wall: the robots will take our jobs. Martin Ford, author of 'Rise of the Robots', explains the implications for human beings and the market-driven capitalist system.
It's time to destroy your business
Question and overthrow fondly held assumptions if you are to build an enterprise for the future
Zeynep Ton: Pay Employees More, Get More
A Q&A with Zeynep Ton, author of "The Good Jobs Strategy", on how four retailers make more money by paying above-average wages.
A new vision for Make in India: Create a web of small, nimble enterprises
Fears about technology displacing jobs are unrealistic. A network of technology-led enterprises will disrupt old-style massive factories and generate more opportunities for employment
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