When Will They Ever Learn?

I was recently reading a paper on "grade inflation" published by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni.  It states that "In the face of acknowledged grade inflation, the Princeton…

Oops #2: Stretch Goals

  The 2nd Management Practice That Wastes Time & Money: Stretch Goals.

AIG Gives Bonuses a Bad Name

Everybody is talking about AIG again. The conversation is about how they continue to throw tax-payer money away. Over the weekend new details of AIG’s bonus plans were made public. In a nutshell the…

Speak of the Devil

In OOPS! , mergers and acquisitions is one of the 13 management practices that waste time and money. In a Business Week article, Drug Mergers: Killers for Research by Catherine Arnst she quotes Dr.…

Monetary Incentives

Ask Aubrey: Hi Aubrey !! My name is Scott, I am a human performance technologist. My question is: Bill Abernathy in his book Managing Without Supervising suggested that R+ systems without monetary…

Knowledge of Behavior Is Never Irrelevant

Can you believe it, they have me blogging. At age 73, no less. Hey, behavior changes. I have just read Growing Up Digital the latest book by Don Tapscott. He talks a lot about the NetGeneration, ages…

Oops #1

The 1st Management Practice That Wastes Time & Money: Employee of the Month (and most other forms of recognition and reward).