How Performance Management Is Killing Performance—and What to Do About It

Part III

REBOOT.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

—Charles Kettering

Let’s Get Real

YOU’VE COME A LONG WAY. In Rethink, you shored up your background on the flaws of old-school performance programs, you wrapped your brain (and, I hope, your heart) around the Fundamental Shifts, and you grounded yourself in the common goals of performance management. In Redesign, your team did the hard work of designing a solution that is unique to your strategy, your culture, and your promise to your employees—with the support of your leaders and other key influencers within your organization. And now that your solution is configured, it’s time to roll up your sleeves and make this design a living, breathing reality. ...