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The Performance Project: Performance at the Edge

When you think about F1 motor racing, what comes to mind? Perhaps you think about the noise of the cars, that powerful deep roar...


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Recession? Is it time to prepare for hard times to come?

The fall in the retail sales figures in May could be a one off blip (or common cause variation) but given the slower growth in...


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Elephants & Performance Measurement and Management

“Performance measurement is really all about finance. Right?” Someone said this to me recently at a meeting I attended and it...


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Living with the uncertainty of Brexit - 3 steps to execution

What will be the outcome of Brexit? We still don’t know and some of the repercussions will run on for years. So what can we do...


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A ten-step framework for setting effective sales targets

Most organisations already have some of the elements of this framework, but it is rare to find a sales target system that...


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Setting Effective Sales Targets

Sales targets are extensively used by sales organisations to help achieve a ‘desired’, ‘promised’, ‘minimum’, or ‘aspirational’...


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Motivating and Rewarding the Sales Force

Motivating your sales force is a critical component of sales force management, given its profound effect on people’s behaviour...


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Managing and Measuring Sales Performance

Sales organisation’s face many dilemmas when managing and measuring sales performance. Sales people may be doing the right thing...


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It's not all about the money: Why the key to business performance is not to over-emphasise the financials

Where to focus their attention is an important strategic issue for companies, and one that needs active consideration. Are you...


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The dark side of performance measurement

Just a couple of years ago, Lloyds Banking Group was fined a record £28m for operating a system of targets and incentives that...


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