Karie Willyerd NOVEMBER 18, 2014 Find this and other HBR graphics in our VISUAL LIBRARY A high performer can deliver 400% more productivity than the average performer . Despite this, when most managers look at workforce statistics, all employees tend to be lumped together into a category so broadly defined that it becomes difficult to take meaningful decisions. If your average employee tenure is six years, is that good or bad? You could benchmark the Fortune 500 and find that indeed you would look pretty good, tied at 40 th place . But if the people you are keeping are the low performers and your high performers are leaving, would that be really so great? Last summer, my colleagues and I at SAP conducted a study with Oxford Economics across 27 countries to find out what the future workforce wants. We led twin studies of executives and employees and asked the employees how they were rated on their most recent performance appraisal ra...
Most of us during the days hear some news regarding failed projects. Projects fail everyday and just we here about them. But really why? When a project is started, there are some standards that show how the project have to be handled. There are many best practice which may be used during the initiating the project. There are many real consultant out of our organization who can tell us many stories about their failed projects. But again the project will be failed! If go deeply through the fact and figure, simply we can understand that yes, there many stories out for us, but just there are.
By Allison Master Sep 23 2015 Imagine a computer programmer. What does this person look like? What is this person doing? Is the person with anyone? What kinds of hobbies might he or she have? Chances are that you imagined someone who is: male, white or Asian American, kind of geeky-looking and sitting alone at a computer. This typifies the stereotypical image of computer science in American culture. And this image has only solidified over the past 30 years: so much so that high school girls say things like : when I heard “computer science,” I pictured nerdy boys, who turned into nerdy bearded men, slouched over huge computers and click-clacking out codes that meant nothing to me. The real problem is that this geeky representation may prevent girls from seriously considering a career in computer science. As it is, women are highly underrepresented in computer science. In recent years, only 18% of college degrees have gone to women. I am p...
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