Your Mission #5: Manage Unit Performance
Managing the performance of your business unit, regardless of its size, is the most important contribution you can make to the ongoing success of the business as a whole. It is when managers avoid or abrogate this responsibility that serious problems begin to take root and grow. Poor performance is tolerated and the signal to good performers is that their efforts don’t count for much. Why manage performance? Why would you bother managing unit performance? There are a lot of good reasons for doing performance management well and these are a few of the most important: It makes positive contributions [...]