Sally Helgesen, Fred Kofman
One of the hard problems of leadership is that an organization is only as strong as its weakest leader.
Content: Quotation | Authors: Fred Kofman, Sally Helgesen | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Leadership
Sally Helgesen, Fred Kofman
The exclusive focus on monetary rewards inevitably leaves organizations fighting a fierce but losing struggle to balance individual and team results. Rewarding high performers serves the imperatives of accountability and excellence but can undermine alignment and cooperation among team members. Yet basing pay on team results in order to incentivize collaboration often ends up inadvertently rewarding subpar individual performance and penalizing individual excellence. Neither approach … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Authors: Fred Kofman, Sally Helgesen | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Compensation, Human Resources, Motivation, Organizational Behavior, Teamwork