by Carol Sanford | Jul 18, 2011 | Business Development
This is the second part of a series of six reflections on the impact of feedback processes, including 360º feedback on Responsibility behavior. It is based on six premises about human nature that are not well understood. Part One set up the introduction and Premise 1....
by Carol Sanford | Jul 13, 2011 | Business Development
Providing feedback to peers, subordinates, and even superiors—particularly the 360 Degree view of performance appraisal—became popular as scientists and engineers began to understand how cybernetic systems work in computer applications. The creators of these...
by Carol Sanford | Jun 14, 2011 | Business Development
There is a loud and escalating cry for businesses to create jobs in order to put people to work—and an equally strong debate about why businesses aren’t doing it and what their responsibility is in periods of high unemployment. This week’s post looks at what...
by Carol Sanford | May 11, 2011 | Business Development
This blog was initially posted on Forbes blogger Steve Denning’s site 1. You have worked with teams that have no supervision. You call them Buyer Node Teams. Please tell us about them. Buyer node teams are champions for a set of customers or consumers. In a...
by Carol Sanford | May 9, 2011 | Business Development
Early in my academic career, a seasoned manager of a Fortune 500 company told me that his superior had reprimanded him, repeatedly, for only infrequently submitting the names of his people for special corporate recognition programs. His boss felt that this group, or...