Do you ever find, however rigidly you set goals for some employees, they never achieve them? There’s always an excuse why they missed targets or failed to achieve tasks set for them.
Why? Well, it’s probably because they’re not interested. They don’t feel engaged in the process that arrived at the goals, and the goals aren’t important for them.
Kevin Dwyer, a director at The Change Factory, says it’s important that managers understand employees personal objectives before they can match them to company goals. One easy way of doing this is through the deathbed soliloquy. He explains how this works in this edition of BTalk.
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Beg, steel, and borrow
Is this the end of the line for the British steel industry. I talk to Steve Keen about the repercussions of the collapse of Greensill Capital. Plus, the US stimulus bill passed, but is it too much?
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Trump won because trickle-down economics doesn’t work
Trump’s unexpected win reflects the dissatisfaction of huge swathes of disenfranchised voters across America.
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An optimistic ECB, despite everything
No disaster scenario from the ECB. NAB’s Gavin Friend says they didn’t want to be seen to be panicking in the fast moving markets and Mario Draghi seems to be in denial.
