The Performance Pipeline: Getting the Right Performance At Every Level of Leadership

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Defining Your Performance Pipeline

The Global Financial Crisis of 2008–2009 has provided compelling evidence for why organizations need a performance pipeline—as well as evidence that many companies lacked such a pipeline during this massive economic downturn. Consider the following questions and whether you could have answered them then—and now:

• Do you know what every leader in your organization is trying to achieve today; do you have a convenient way to find out?
• Are all critical results assigned?
• Are requirements for full performance clear to every leader?
• Is every leader working at the level to which he or she is assigned?
• Is the right work being done in the right way?
• Do you know which leaders are inhibiting the performance of the people ...