Performance Management Quotes

The scoreboard is strategy focused, and the dashboard is operation oriented. ~ Pearl Zhu

The nutshell version is that you need to think about the employee mindsets, behaviors, knowledge, and expertise that are potentially linked to the performance outcomes of interest. ~ Pearl Zhu

The innovation indicators vary depending on who is doing the measuring, and how they are measuring. It's contextual. ~ Pearl Zhu

Corporation performance Management is all about managing performance by that data (KPIs) which really matters. ~ Pearl Zhu

The right set of unique digital capabilities directly decides the overall organization's competency and growth potential, to build high-effective, high-responsive, high-intelligent and high mature digital organization. ~ Pearl Zhu

IT metrics need to evolve to something that matters to the business audience; at the same time that "business sentiment" needs to get put into something more tangible. ~ Pearl Zhu

A scorecard assesses progress to strategic goals whereas a dashboard assesses performance to operational goals. ~ Pearl Zhu

Strategic-operational KPIs alignment gives the organization a powerful tool to use when implementing change. ~ Pearl Zhu

It is difficult to have a highly competitive organization without highly competitive talent. ~ Pearl Zhu

The business management is, in essence, the decision management and performance management continuum. ~ Pearl Zhu

The use of KPIs is meant to improve and transform the organizational performance. ~ Pearl Zhu

Any individual indicator can be a lead or lag indicator depending upon the context and explanatory model chosen. ~ Pearl Zhu

A balanced scoreboard needs to provide the balanced view of business progress; perhaps it also has the "unbalanced" nature to do prioritization. ~ Pearl Zhu

Don't just play the number game, but connect the contextual dots and focus on the overall business objectives. ~ Pearl Zhu

Keep strategy management and performance management synchronized to accelerate digital transformation. ~ Pearl Zhu

All you need is the will and the skill ~ Stewart Liff

Corporate performance management systems and processes are gradually moving away from a static, unidirectional, and time-bound avatar to a more dynamic, continuous, and interactive state. ~ Pearl Zhu

Performance Management is a holistic management discipline which needs to connect many relevant dots to involve development, enablement, and enhancement. ~ Pearl Zhu

The goals of applying scoreboard are to translate the vision and strategic planning into operational goals; communicate strategy and link it to individual performance. ~ Pearl Zhu

Enterprise Performance Management is an overarching umbrella for other management disciplines. ~ Pearl Zhu

We are only constrained by the boundaries of our imagination ~ David Moffett

The real purpose of performance indicator is to provide business insight and monitor the progress and performance. ~ Pearl Zhu

The overall organizational health needs to be measured via employee engagement, culture readiness, business agility, and customer-centricity, etc. ~ Pearl Zhu

A dashboard needs to be light, focus on "K" in KPIs. ~ Pearl Zhu

Most organizations fail to manage performance effectively because they fail to look into the system holistically. ~ Pearl Zhu

You should always leverage performance and potential, look at the overall success of the company for the long run. ~ Pearl Zhu

Number does not necessarily guarantee performance.
For I have seen a team of 8 outperform a team of 80. ~ Awolumate Samuel

When rewards ignore individual performance, the incentive to strive for excellence is lost. ~ Frank Sonnenberg

The digital transformation scorecard allows you to focus on the most important things. Without scorecards, it will become like searching for a needle in the haystack. ~ Pearl Zhu

There is a need to evaluate the performance of employees in a more objective and continuous way. ~ Pearl Zhu

A performance dashboard is a practical tool to improve management effectiveness and efficiency, not just a pretty retrospective picture in an annual report. ~ Pearl Zhu

The goal of agility measure is to keep track of the most value-driven factors to lead business success. ~ Pearl Zhu

Every measure selected should be part of a link of cause-and-effect relationships, and ultimately affect the growth and long-term perspectives of the organization. ~ Pearl Zhu

Metaphorically, if the enterprise is a vehicle, Enterprise Performance Management is like the gas pedal with speed scoreboard. ~ Pearl Zhu

I will be living with chronic pain for the rest of my life. I don't have the mobility, energy or life options I used to have. I work hard to manage the pain, and I want the medical system to be a respectful and effective partner, not a jailer. The opioid crisis is not my doing. ~ Sonya Huber

I don't believe that you can give the same performance every take. It's physically impossible, so why bother? If you don't do what is happening at that moment, then it's not real. Then you're holding something back. ~ Bill Murray

A good coach is postive. Your job when coaching is not correcting mistakes, finding fault, and assessing blame. Instead, your function is achieving goals by coaching your staff to peak performance. Focusing on the positive means that you start with what's good and what works, and spend your attention and energy there. ~ Marshall Cook

Management Challenges to Implementing Agile Processes in Traditional Development Organizations, ~ Barry Boehm

He actually made damnation seem attractive. She had heard of men who rejected gods, who professed not to believe, but here was a believer who refused to grovel, a man who stood up to Shiva, to Buddha, to the gods of his own race, whoever they might be, who stood right up to them and demanded an accounting for a system in which pleasure must be paid for with pain, a system in which the only triumph over suffering was hard-won oblivion, a system that offered its captive audience little choice in matters concerning duration of performance. ~ Tom Robbins

Or you can turn your figures into, for instance, a flock of seagulls, and the formation they fly in and the way in which the wings of each gull beat will be determined by the performance of each division of your company. ~ Douglas Adams

Dr. Seuss's management masterpiece Yertle the Turtle. SCREENING ~ Ben Horowitz

But there is not one management course in the world where they recommend Self-Righteousness as a tool. ~ Tina Fey

Your habit of avoiding mental and emotional discomfort is your #1 reason for your being stuck where you are in life. ~ Tony Dovale

I'm not afraid of the opinions of others - but of being needed and coming up short ... ~ John Geddes

I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman's joy at the sight of a superior performance. ~ Joy Davidman

In the (film) industry, body size doesn't matter. What matters is how much an actor contributes through his performance and not his body size. It is important that every person should wear clothes that go with their body - the cut, the fabric make a lot of difference. ~ Deepika Padukone

The main reason why historians have skated over the relationship of Victorian PMs with the press is that they haven't been looking for it. It takes a lecturer in media studies such as Paul Brighton to point out that media management was part of the job of a Victorian prime minister. ~ Jane Ridley

I went to a performance-art high school, and a teacher there was signing me up for open-mic nights at the comedy club. I think about it now, and I think, 'Well, that may be inappropriate,' but it was great!' ~ Margaret Cho

The less energy people expend on performance, the more they expend on appearances to compensate. ~ Jessica Livingston

The nice thing about 'Honeymoon in Vegas' is we're not talking about some crazy smash hit where everyone is coming and comparing my performance to Nicholas Cage. ~ Rob McClure

Doing testing with real users (in addition to internal quality testing) can help you avoid the serious embarrassment of a failed product. ~ Brian Lawley

What's measured improves ~ Peter F. Drucker

The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man. ~ Edwin Muir

Sex is not a mechanical act that fails for lack of technique, and it is not a performance by the male for the audience of the female; it is a continuum of attraction that extends from the simplest conversation and the most innocent touching through the act of coitus. ~ Garrison Keillor

When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool. ~ Clay Shirky

We've got enough going on in our lives today without stressing about things that might or might not happen tomorrow ~ Karen Gibbs

How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group. ~ John Harvey-Jones

Anger can be defeated by controlling our emotions without upsetting the nerves. ~ Munia Khan

Management must have a purpose, a dedication and that dedication must have an emotional commitment. It must be built in as a vital part of the personality of anyone who truly is a manager. ~ Harold Geneen

Economic management involves the operation of economic frameworks in real time - for example, in the private sector, the management of complex financial institutions or, in the public sector, the day-to-day supervision of those institutions. ~ Ben Bernanke

David Fincher is probably the best comprehensive director in terms of being a manger of a process that must drive forward. He has such confident command of cinema language and visual language and script and performance. He knows more about f-stops than any cameraman, he knows more about lighting than any gaffer, he is a wonderful writer, and he can give you a good line reading. Under pressure, he is the kind of guy who you will just dive in with and trust and follow because his vision is so intense. ~ Edward Norton

When you recite you're giving a performance, in the way that an actor or a singer performs, and some poets are not interested in doing that, maybe because they're writing for a readership as opposed to an audience, or because they see poetry as a very private art. ~ James Arthur

Thall identified the things he loves most about his work - developing products and creating growth strategies - and he finds ways to outsource other tasks. The brand currently has 14 staff members working in San Diego who specialize in things like inventory management and human resources, which are aspects of the business Thall did not feel equipped to handle himself. "It's easy for a passion project to quickly turn into just another job if you are forced to perform tasks you don't enjoy every day," Thall says. ~ Anonymous

Flow tends to be the psychic signature of world-class performance and paradigm-shifting breakthroughs, ~ Steven Kotler

The one thing I will say is management is management. Culture is culture. You have to have a formula for those things. You have to believe in what you do and how you do it, but then you go to different environments and you have to be willing to adapt. You have to be willing to tweak things based on where you are. ~ Pete Lembo

A cardinal principle in systems theory is that all parties that have a stake in a system should be represented in its management. ~ Malcolm Knowles

Being an American in Australia isn't easy,
but I'm trying to integrate, I'm trying to fit in. ~ Billy Marshall Stoneking

From my perspective, it's really risk management to ensure that humans have the ability to go somewhere else in case there were to be some huge disaster on Earth. ~ Gwynne Shotwell

Drama is the most difficult of all arts. In it two things are to be satisfied - first, the ears, and second, the eyes. To paint a scene, if one thing be painted, it is easy enough; but to paint different things and yet to keep up the central interest is very difficult. Another difficult thing is stage - management, that is, combining different things in such a manner as to keep the central interest intact. ~ Swami Vivekananda

The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation. ~ Bill Murray

Simple acts are more valuable than extraordinary powers or spiritual gifts. For Jesus there is a categorical difference between charismatic giftedness and the ordinary fruit of love, compassion, and mercy. Perhaps we need to learn to ask ourselves, particularly if we are gifted leaders, if we value our gifts more than love, if we value the performance of a gift for the good of others or the gift of love for the good of others. When Jesus used "fruit" over against mighty charismatic gifts, he was getting at what mattered most. Do you show love to your neighbors, to your enemies, and to all those who happen to be on your path? Jesus is saying here that if you don't do the latter, he doesn't particularly care about your charismatic giftedness. ~ Scot McKnight

Three languages - the video, the music and the live performance - are awesome to bring together. ~ Planningtorock

To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order. ~ Peter Drucker

When you're doing the same scene over and over, all day long, you need to keep your levels up for your own performance and for the other actors. ~ Iwan Rheon

A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her. ~ Sean Durkin

Manage the cause, not the result. ~ W. Edwards Deming

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. ~ Peter Drucker

Our brains are wired such that it's difficult to take action until we feel at least some level of this emotional state. In fact, performance peaks under the heightened activation that comes with moderate levels of stress. As long as the stress isn't prolonged, it's harmless. ~ Travis Bradberry

But there isn't much else most club managers can do to push their teams up the table. After all, players matter much more. As Johan Cruijff said when he was coaching Barcelona, "If your players are better than your opponents, 90 percent of the time you will win." There cannot be many businesses where a manager would make such an extravagant claim. The chairman of General Motors does not say that the art of good management is simply hiring the best designers or the best production managers. ~ Simon Kuper