The Staff+ Performance Cliff
(sylormiller.com)
During the last several years of mentoring other Staff+ engineers I've had many conversations with many different people that go roughly the same way:
During the last several years of mentoring other Staff+ engineers I've had many conversations with many different people that go roughly the same way:
Microsoft is planning job cuts and focusing more on underperforming employees
(businessinsider.com)
Microsoft is planning job cuts soon and the company is taking a harder look at underperforming employees as part of the reductions, according to two people familiar with the plans.
Microsoft is planning job cuts soon and the company is taking a harder look at underperforming employees as part of the reductions, according to two people familiar with the plans.
Performance improvement plans are on the rise
(wsj.com)
In the messy business of getting rid of employees, the PIP is having a moment.
In the messy business of getting rid of employees, the PIP is having a moment.
Hey, wait – is employee performance Gaussian distributed?
(timdellinger.substack.com)
It’s probably Pareto-distributed, not Gaussian, which elucidates a few things about some of the problems that performance management processes have at large corporations, and also speaks to why it’s so hard to hire good people. Oh, and for the economists: the Marginal Productivity Theory of Wages is cleverly combined with the Gini Coefficient to arrive at the key insight.
It’s probably Pareto-distributed, not Gaussian, which elucidates a few things about some of the problems that performance management processes have at large corporations, and also speaks to why it’s so hard to hire good people. Oh, and for the economists: the Marginal Productivity Theory of Wages is cleverly combined with the Gini Coefficient to arrive at the key insight.
Stop Ignoring Your High Performers
(hbr.org)
In every organization, high performers are the driving force behind innovation, productivity, and excellence.
In every organization, high performers are the driving force behind innovation, productivity, and excellence.