
These urgent and recessionary times call for a tougher approach. Here are my five P’s of Performance Management (aka Getting Things Done):
- Plan: pay attention to what’s important, and set quantifiable performance standards.
- Practice: a plan is useless until it is implemented.
- Praise: yourself or others when your get the right results. People make the difference and need to understand what constitutes a job well done.
- Persistence: with thorough preparation and planning you can afford to persevere until you reap the rewards. Poor preparation and planning always sows doubt and uncertainty, and a tendency to bolt before your horse crosses the finish line.
- Patience: have none of it. Refine, polish, and generally improve your approach until it produces the goods. Patience is overrated and completely different to persistence.
"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits".Or as Napolean Hill is credited with saying:
"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable
combination for success."
A more succinct version of my less patient offering.
I came across super-tough advice for business leaders in an old management article. Punch-ups (competition isn’t pretty), Poaching (wisely), Protect (your position), cultivate Paranoia, Pride (in the business) and Pulverise (not dissimilar to my Persistence idea). I wonder if the author was an ex-boxer?
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