Skill-set Management

Should Performance Reviews Be Fired?

Many observers have suggested that performance reviews cause too much stress (for the benefit generated). Even when reviews work as […]

Knowledge@Wharton has a great article Incentive or Gift? How Perception of Employee Stock Options Affects Performance. It appears that the idea

McKinsey Quarterly has a useful guide in Sparking creativity in teams: In fact, our experience with hundreds of corporate teams, ranging

We have often talked about incentive plans and their impact on motivating R&D teams. In”Impact of Incentive Bonus Plan” we

We discussed user centric design as the fundamental tenet of new product development under Jobs. We talked about how a long-term vision,

Let us continue our discussion on the Steve Jobs methodology. We discussed user centric design as the fundamental tenet of new product

An interesting paper in Science extends the concept of intelligence to teams and defines Collective Intelligence. Based on study of

A couple of articles (Handling the Underperformer on Your Team, & The Dirty Secret of Effective Sales Coaching) have good pointers

Another great article by Joseph Schumpeter in the Economist: Down with fun. These days many companies are obsessed with fun. Software

Here is an article from the McKinsey Quartely on a topic of great personal interest to me: how to boost