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Performance : Creating the Performance-Driven Organization
Mark A. Stiffler
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A unified approach to performance management that integrates organization and employee performance

Performance provides a practical framework for rethinking what performance management is and how it can be used to better execute strategy. It clearly presents a unified approach for aligning, measuring, rewarding, reporting, and analyzing the performance of an organization and its people that enables executives and managers to move beyond today’s incomplete and fragmented approach to performance management. Featuring real-world illustrations and intuitive, practical, and actionable steps to creating a performance-driven organization, this essential guide will fundamentally change how you think about your organization’s performance.

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A unified approach to performance management that integrates organization and employee performance Performance provides a practical framework for rethinking what performance management is and how it can be used to better execute strategy. It clearly presents a unified approach for aligning, measuring, rewarding, reporting, and analyzing the performance of an organization and its people that enables executives and managers to move beyond today's incomplete and fragmented approach to performance management. Featuring real-world illustrations and intuitive, practical, and actionable steps to creating a performance-driven organization, this essential guide will fundamentally change how you think about your organization's performance.

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More garbage..........2007-01-30

...from the CEO of yet another "Toxic Company".

I bought this book from another bookseller as a closeout clearance book (for less than five dollars), and I think I paid too much!!

Overall the book's writing stlye is disjointed, as if it was made up of a collection of other articles and websites, rather written as a book.

As for the content: I'll borrow what another reviewer had to say, it's the obvious and the wrong. If you know anything about business, you don't need this book, because most of it is common knowledge. The rest of it is just plain wrong!

You'd be better off reading Storey's Guide to Raising Pigs: Care/Facilities/Management/Breed Selection.

Must read for managers looking for ways to improve performance!.......2006-08-02

For those managers who are looking for a clear, logical approach to improving your organization's performance this book provides a concrete way to get there.

Stiffler's well thought out approach to driving performance makes absolute sense and is clearly described with well written analogies and examples from real life.

It gave me a number of concepts I had never come across before and made me change the way I think about how to motivate an organization to work together toward common goals more successfully.

If you read this book, you will be glad you did.

...hasn't this been tried before??.......2006-07-29

So I ended up with this book because of work, and while I'm reading it I keep thinking 'Where have I heard about this before??'. Then it hits me: ENRON!! They used this same system of incentives, reviews, and bonuses as what is detailed in this book. The end result for Enron was it destroyed the company.

So, I definately disagree with a lot of what's in this book, but the bigger problem is what ISN'T in the book - namely the costs. Any plan has costs and benefits and in the end you have the weigh those costs and benefits to decide if you want to use the plan. But, Stiffler treats his "Action Plans" as if there are no real costs. It's typical salespitch clap-trap. What about employee turnover (a major expense for almost any business), or damage to employee morale and teamwork (difficult to quantify but very important to most businesses)?

I'd have to say that the cost of this kind of "Performance" is way too high for the very small benefits it might offer.

Don't waste your time.......2006-04-01

The only information in this book is the 'obvious' and the 'wrong'. For instance the author's insistence on his framework for performance (align, measure, reward, report, analyze):

ALIGN: Kinda, obvious isn't it. There's no point in having duplicate departments or wasted efforts. Most businesses have gotten this problem solved at the Business Plan level.

MEASURE: Dead wrong. There's no quicker way to kill morale than micromanaging employees down to the level of how long it takes them to answer the phone. Besides why are you wasting money employing people to "measure" your other employees?

REWARD: "Pay for Performance"- Perhaps the worst idea in American Business since "New COKE". Good employees won't be motivated by extra money (sure they'll like it, but they'd do a good job without it). So the only thing this does is create a whole new crop of mercenary employees.

REPORT: Because how else can you justify all that money you wasted on MEASURING. Besides nothing builds a team like telling them how they are different from their co-workers, right? WRONG!

ANALYZE: Because those mercenary employees are really only interested in the money, so you have to tell them what the report means!!

This book is bad ideas followed by worse ideas. Who edited this thing anyways??

Required Reading.......2006-03-29

Unlike the other books I was asked to read for work Performance was easy to read and apply. This is a good book for anyone in management who wants to improve the way they measure performance.

What gets rewarded gets pursued! creating a performance-driven organization. (Lefty's Corner).: An article from: Management Quarterly

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What gets rewarded gets pursued! creating a performance-driven organization. (Lefty's Corner).: An article from: Management Quarterly
Dave Lefty Lefkowith
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This digital document is an article from Management Quarterly, published by National Rural Electric Cooperative Association on September 22, 2001. The length of the article is 1233 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: What gets rewarded gets pursued! creating a performance-driven organization. (Lefty's Corner).
Author: Dave Lefty Lefkowith
Publication: Management Quarterly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2001
Publisher: National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
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Five years after its first publication, with more than 150,000 copies in print, Final Gifts has become a classic. In this moving and compassionate book, hospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients at the end of life, drawn from more than twenty years experience tending the terminally ill.

Through their stories we come to appreciate the near-miraculous ways in which the dying communicate their needs, reveal their feelings, and even choreograph their own final moments; we also discover the gifts--of wisdom, faith, and love--that the dying leave for the living to share.

Filled with practical advice on responding to the requests of the dying and helping them prepare emotionally and spiritually for death, Final Gifts shows how we can help the dying person live fully to the very end

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A must have for everyone.......2007-09-30

This book had everything I needed to understand what my dad was going through as he slowly prepared to die. It made it all so understandable and much easier to accept. Not only is everything explained, it gives concrete examples from the author's experiences as Hospice nurses. Such an informative and comforting book to have...I have read it numerous times and find new things each time as the dying process progressed. I would recommend it to everyone.

A Tad Sugar -Coated?.......2007-09-28

I hate to be a wet blanket because so many people have drawn so much strength from this book. I found it to be extremely helpful in learning to listen to the symbolic language of dying people--a perspective that, in itself, is worth the read. It troubles me, however, that almost all of the deaths were reported as peaceful, even joyous, that almost all family members were healthy and fulfilled. Most of the dying people were young, smart, and/or extremely articulate.

I would have appreciated an account that included the not-so-pretty experiences of death--the ambiguous, ambivalent, hard, messy parts.
Including those pieces would have made the book more helpful.

The interventions of the authors were somehow just too neat and tidy.

Should be required reading for every human being!.......2007-09-26

My daughter and I think that EVERYONE should read this book. Sooner or later, most of us will need it. I read this book after bringing my Mother
home from hospital and placing her under Hospice care. I was with her 24/7 for that last month she lived. I cannot even begin to tell you what a help this book was to me and all members of my family. This book changed our lives. We look at life and death so differently than we did previously. I felt honored to be there through all the changes and the death of my Mother.

A book to share.......2007-09-18

I read this book while my grandmother was dying; I wish I had read it sooner. I have purchased multiple copies of this book and try to have a copy on hand at all times to share with the next person experiencing this process. The insights that the authors share are helpful in understanding this process without attempting to put it into a religious context, but in the dying person's language. They explain the value of listening to that person and what they are saying and respecting their choices.

Everyone needs to read this book, not just those who are experiencing this now, with someone, but everyone. We all will face this death sooner or later and the preparation this book gives invaluable insight into that final gift.

GREAT BOOK!!!!!.......2007-08-30

This book will help families and health care professionals understand the precious time surrounding death. So well written, it will make you laugh and cry and feel more comfort around a topic our society tends to avoid. I work in oncology and highly highly recomend this book to nurses, physicians, families, ANYONE. We all deal with death and this book really helps you to understand a new perspective!

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A very useful handbook for an impossible process
Too academic and no "heart".

Multiple AIDS-Related Loss: A Handbook For Understanding And Surviving A Perpetual Fall (Series in Death, Dying and Bereavement)
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Surviving multiple-AIDS related loss losing more than one loved one to AIDS has cumulative and continuous effects while stigmatization and the abscence of traditionally available support systems handicap recovery. This book strives to legitimize the profound pain experienced by many survivors of AIDS. Normalizing the abnormal experience of survivors is an important coping strategy emphasized throughout.; Taking a personal look at this tragedy, the book presents the stories and experiences of survivors. It also outlines the historical context of AIDS and characteristics of multiple-AIDS related loss, and explores grieving multiple loss and the problems for survivors in both grief, adjustment, and traumatization. Other topics covered include the impact on families of origin and families of choice, self identity and existential anxiety, specific suggestions for both helping survivors and enabling them to thrive, and professional issues in treatment.

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A very useful handbook for an impossible process.......1998-10-30

This book has helped me to understand the experiences that I have gone through in my own life. It helped me understand that my feeling are normal and that any experience of multiple, on-going loss will have a profound impact. The interviews with multiple loss survivors resonated strongly with me and I now know I am not alone. Especially useful were the sections on spirituality and existentialism. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has suffered painful loss due to AIDS.

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