WSJ.com - Get Rid of the Performance Review!
Business Insight: In Collaboration With MIT Sloan Management Review
The alleged primary purpose of an annual pay and performance review is to enlighten subordinates about what they should be doing better or differently. But instead, it destroys morale, kills teamwork and hurts the bottom line. And that's just for starters.
5 Myths About Our Ailing Health-Care System
With Congress ready to spend $700 billion to prop up the U.S. economy, enacting health-care reform may seem about as likely as the Dow hitting 10,000 again before the end of the year. But it may be more doable than you think, provided we dispel a few myths about how health care works and how much reform Americans are willing to stomach.
If Richard Branson Ran GM…
...he’d take an all-electric or hybrid Cadillac Escalade to Washington and carpool with the CEOs from Chrysler and Ford. It would become a pseudo-political campaign, making stops in cities and towns with parties every night. He’d have a sweepstakes for someone to win the Escalade they drove in.
Consumer Confidence is Plummeting
"This is the dilemma that 30 years of Reaganomics (the real Reaganomics — keeping the economy overstimulated with huge deficits and irresponsible consumer borrowing — not the fantasy Reaganomics of government run like a family and tax cuts that pay for themselves) has left us with. So what do we do?"
Lazy Publishers: Get Your Content From Pluck On Demand
Demand Media launches Pluck on Demand - a new service that will add contextually relevant content to publishing websites via an easy to use widget. In other words, if you don’t have enough content, Pluck on Demand will add appropriate stuff to your site for you.
