The End of Performance Management (As You Know It): How Google, GE, and other great companies are changing the way they manage performance

by Francisco S. Homem De Mello

"This book offers a set of concrete examples of tools used by world leading organizations in their pursuit to build and sustain high-performance cultures. It is a helpful guide for leaders interested in benchmarking best practices and develop similar processes in their own organizations." - Rodrigo Boscolo, Director, GP Investments The End of Performance Management (As You Know It) is a thorough discussion of the current state of performance what is and isn't working, and how a handful of global titans are changing the rules of the game. The book discusses how GE, Google, Deloitte, Adobe and other giants are innovating their performance management practices by bringing in tools like check-ins, ongoing feedbacks and objectives and key-results. A must-read for any HR professional that needs to navigate in the performance management waters.

266 pages, Paperback

Published October 3, 2016

About the author

Francisco Souza Homem de Mello was born in Brazil, and is the founder and CEO of Qulture.Rocks, a technology company on a mission to help all companies have cultures that rock, abd that serves startups, middle-market companies, and Fortune 500 corporations (http://qulture.rocks). The company has also been part of Y-Combinator's W18 batch, and now ranks among other YC alumni such as Twitch, Stripe, Heroku and Dropbox.

At Qulture.Rocks, Francisco writes extensively about performance management and leadership, which make up the powerful intersection between performance reviews, ongoing, continuous feedback, goals and OKRs and one-on-one meetings.

The 3G Way, Francisco's most well known book, was the product of many years of intense study and thinking about some of the world's most intense and successful corporate cultures. He studied GE, Walmart, Goldman Sachs, and finally, Anheuser-Busch InBev, a company that is the result of several mergers and acquisitions by Brazil-based Cervejaria Brahma. Brahma was first acquired by partners of Banco Garantia, a Brazilian investment bank where the current owners of AB InBev, Burger King, and Heinz, started out their careers. AB InBev served as the inspiration for The 3G Way, where the author introduces the management style and techniques that evolved from Garantia and took its creators to the forefront of world capitalism. The book is on its second, revised edition, and has sold more than 50 thousand copies worldwide, making Francisco one of the top 200 authors in business and management worldwide.

Francisco is also a triathlete, with multiple Ironman, Ironman 70.3 and olympic-distance finishes. He lives in San Francisco and São Paulo, with his wife, Danielle, and dogs, Eureka and Eugenia.