There’s Got
Better Way
to Be a
Experts agree performance
management has become over-engineered and over-documented.
How can it be fixed?
BY MAURA C. CICCARELLI
JEFFREY MANGIAT
Don’t let this belt-tightening, roller-coaster economy fool you. Short- term thinking isn’t the way out of this mess. Future leaders are. That’s why leading companies are investing in their high-potential employees.
Take Unilever North America, for example. It decided to create an action-learning-based program to develop its future leader pipeline.
Meanwhile, IBM has a highly competitive Corporate continued on page 16
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HR’s Rising
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