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Performance……

“”Perfor***ce (man) …Perfor’ce you are required to demonstrate it with resuts.
So some say ‘Performance’ is the other side of personal development.

Good workers display results. Bad workers make excuses. Hoowever, pressure to Per’force ‘results’ should not ’suck the success’ out. So performance is always accompanied by moderate pressure. Low or High presssures both are detrimental.”"
copyright (c) 2007 Priyavrat Thareja

“It is much more difficult to measure non-PERFORMANCE than PERFORMANCE. PERFORMANCE stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-PERFORMANCE can almost always be explained away. Harold S. Geneen 1910-, American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT

*Wish to read exerpts from What’s to be done about performance reviews? concluded by Prof Jim Heskett Harward Business schools Working Knowledge in

Harward Business Reviews
Article printed from systematicHR - Human Resources Strategy and Technology: http://systematichr.com
URL to article: http://systematichr.com/?p=626

Exective summary of Performance Review:
What can we do to make performance reviews more productive and less distasteful? Should their objectives be scaled back to just one or two? Should they be disengaged from the determination of compensation and, if so, how?

Long schedule of 93 contributions are at http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5563.html

- Posted on November 20th, 2007 in Quality, Personal Development, Management | 1,774 Views | Comments (0)

A Total Quality Organization Thro’ People
(Part 11) Insulate the People from Quantity
index of other issues/parts

Abstract
The complex of Quality and the challenge of quantities have always been an exercise bothering People (including managements). The race (in business process) to meet pressing delivery schedules, and ever increasing quantities, has always threatened ‘Quality’, to the extent of causing a vicious circle. Through this paper

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- Posted on November 6th, 2007 in Pages, Foundry, Management, Publications | 1,578 Views | Comments (0)

Don’t Leave Day’s work to 2morrow?

Daftar mein gar kiya nahin kaam,
Kyo ki pure karne’ the’ arman,

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- Posted on October 24th, 2007 in Humour, Management, Hindi | 2,527 Views | Comments (0)

A Total Quality Organization Thro’ People
(Part 7): STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT
index of other issues/parts
Quality marks itself as a prerequisite to ‘meet customer’s requirements’, through maintaining ‘fitness of the product’ as per customers requirements. The wish-list of the customer is always changing, w.r.t what the customer got from you/ your competitor, or can negotiate, can pay for, can envisage how to make you to expect exceeding of his (customer’s) requirements, and so on. However it all depends upon the ‘Strategic’ choice of how much a customer deserves to be delighted, or how much investments are made into process

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- Posted on August 11th, 2007 in Foundry, Engineering, Management | 3,632 Views | Comments (2)

Dhirubhai Ambani, silently adores the faces of your mail (Stamp etc) today,
From novice to most wise; he was the cause of mail box’s load yesterday, (maximum Number of Shareholders & Plethora of frequent debenture schemes)
Who had pioneered the cult of equity and ‘New’ debenture instruments,
Dhirubhai not only set the tone of driving People, to facilitate their presence,
on the cover page of his annual reports, and his dreams to become numero-uno one day!

Indeed he was A Guru of financial engineering, of entovation, and of marketing as one may say!

It is simplistically illustrated in the bollywood movie Guru…

- Posted on March 7th, 2007 in Films, Management | 6,020 Views | Comments (1)