Teams That Prioritize Either Learning or Performance Perform Better
Sep 12, 2025 · Performance management practices and systems often encourage teams to “innovate and deliver,” pushing them toward high standards while asking them to be flexible and experimental. …
Research: Performance Reviews That Actually Motivate Employees
Nov 7, 2024 · Performance reviews are an important tool to help managers and organizations motivate and engage their workforce. Narrative-based feedback provides employees with more personalized …
Employee performance management - HBR
Mar 24, 2026 · Find new ideas and classic advice for global leaders from the world's best business and management experts.
How to Build a Superteam That Keeps Getting Better
That realization led Adobe to rethink how it evaluated performance. The company replaced annual reviews with short, informal check-ins that emphasized ongoing conversations about goals and growth.
Companies Are Laying Off Workers Because of AI’s Potential—Not Its ...
Jan 29, 2026 · AI has been cited as a cause of layoffs, but is it actually displacing jobs? And if not, what’s going on? Based on a survey of 1,006 global executives in December 2025, AI is behind at …
HBR's 10 Must Reads on High Performance, Updated and Expanded ...
If you read nothing else on high performance, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you build on your strengths, assemble a …
Performance indicators - HBR
Apr 8, 2026 · Find new ideas and classic advice for global leaders from the world's best business and management experts.
9 Trends Shaping Work in 2026 and Beyond - Harvard Business Review
Feb 2, 2026 · CEO expectations for AI-driven growth remain high in 2026—at the same time their workforces are grappling with the more sober reality of current AI performance. Gartner research …
KPIs Aren’t Just About Assessing Past Performance
Sep 23, 2021 · Many companies track KPIs as a way of predicting performance. To really exploit the predictive power of KPIs, though, you need to map how the KPIs for your key stakeholders feed into …
The Future of Performance Reviews - Harvard Business Review
Hated by bosses and subordinates alike, traditional performance appraisals have been abandoned by more than a third of U.S. companies. The annual review’s biggest limitation, the authors argue ...