MyBig5 Stories
Monthly posts on performance management, engagement and more
It’s 1954. Peter Drucker publishes his book “The Practice of Management” and becomes a household, no, business-household-name. His concept of “SMART” (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timely) goal setting is an instant hit. It prevails for decades. Until recently, when apparently SMART has gone out of fashion and FAST is the way to go. Really? It’s...
MyBig 5 is a performance management software that improves employee engagement. Now there’s a mouthful. What does that mean? Can’t we use other words to describe this? What about objectives versus goals? The 1982 hit “words don’t come easy” by F.R. David comes to mind when I think about the jargon in our field. Take...
Weekly goal setting by successful people and successful organisations. How do they do it? Why is it that successful doesn’t become very succesful automatically? Greg McKeown explains this with the “clarity parardox”. The clarity paradox The clarity paradox is a vicious circle with 4 phases that goes like this: 1: When we really have clarity...
