What is the gap between current and desired performance, costing your organization on an annual basis? A lot more than you might think going by the results of people who got a sneak peek of The Ken Blanchard Companies’ new Cost of Doing Nothing Calculator at the ASTD International Conference last week in Washington, DC.…
Most workers do not feel that employee performance reviews are valuable. That’s what Garry Ridge, CEO of WD-40 Company discovered when he surveyed students in a business course he teaches at the University of San Diego. The problem, according to Ridge, is that most performance systems are used for the wrong reasons. They are either arbitrary,…
I’ve just fallen in love with a new television series that I’ve discovered online. The program is called Kitchen Nightmares and it features world-class restaurateur Gordon Ramsay, most famous for his television show Hell’s Kitchen. In this series, Ramsay works with struggling restaurants all across the United States to see what he can do to…