Performance Management Quotes

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

“Performance Management is a holistic management discipline which needs to connect many relevant dots to involve development, enablement, and enhancement.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight

“Performance is a combination of many factors and shouldn’t be quantified so easily.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight

“If you want it to happen, measure it. If you want it to be repeated, recognize it.”
― H. J. Chammas

“Measure the CIO’s success on value creation, and you’ll get the kind of performance you need out of IT.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“Don’t just play the number game, but connect the contextual dots and focus on the overall”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight

“Performance keeps the business running, and potential moves the business to the next level of the growth cycle.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital Hybridity

“Managing digital performance and improving business achievement as an iterative continuum means setting metrics, adjusting plans, measuring performance, and understanding results dynamically.”
― Pearl Zhu, The Change Agent CIO

“Information/Knowledge management is differentiated business competency and plays a crucial role in running a high-performance business.”
― Pearl Zhu, 100 IT Charms: Running Versatile IT to get Digital Ready

“If you want it to happen, measure it. If you
want it to be repeated, recognize it.”
― H. J. Chammas

“Performance feedback works both ways.”
― Harjeet Khanduja, Nothing About Business

“Performance yields compounded growth.Ordinary becomes outstanding just by ounce of performance.”
― Gagandeep Kaushal

“In short, performance ratings are indicative only of how a person is performing in their given role at the time they are being evaluated. Ratings, although an important way to measure performance during a specific period, are not predictive of future performance and should not be used to gauge readiness for a future role or qualify an internal candidate for a different team. (They can, however, be used to evaluate whether an employee is properly or improperly slotted on their current team; therefore, they can provide an opportunity to evaluate how to better support an internal candidate moving forward.)”
― Titus Winters, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time

“Just as athletes rely on the boundaries and rules of their sport to achieve greatness, we too must embrace the boundaries and rules of our professions to reach new heights of success.”
― Sanjeev Himachali

“Performance is about making people believe what they can achieve.”
― Harjeet Khanduja, HR Mastermind

“Organizational performance is impacted the most by alignment.”
― Harjeet Khanduja, HR Mastermind

“Add performance of each individual and you will get the performance of the entire organization. Sorry to break it to you, that it does not work in that manner.”
― Harjeet Khanduja, HR Mastermind

“Poor performers are not bad people.”
― Harjeet Khanduja, HR Mastermind

“Unlock the potential of people to experience extraordinary results.”
― Harjeet Khanduja, HR Mastermind

“Your preferences decide whether you want to invest in High Performers (HiPer’s) or High Potentials (HiPo’s).”
― Harjeet Khanduja, HR Mastermind

“A cohesive team of average performers is better than an incoherent team of star performers.”
― Harjeet Khanduja, HR Mastermind

“Total Rewards is a strategy to align people to organizational objectives.”
― Harjeet Khanduja, HR Mastermind

“Measure time, you will get time. Measure delivery, you will get delivery.”
― Harjeet Khanduja, HR Mastermind

“Keep metrics simple and actionable.”
― Harjeet Khanduja, HR Mastermind

“HR Metrics are the smartest way to make your HR practices effective and efficient.”
― Harjeet Khanduja, HR Mastermind

“All metrics are not for everyone.”
― Harjeet Khanduja, HR Mastermind

“Context makes analytics actionable.”
― Harjeet Khanduja, HR Mastermind

“Analytics is not a static business.”
― Harjeet Khanduja, HR Mastermind

“Busy doesn't equal productive.
Activity doesn't equal achievement.”
― Greg Born, The 3 Laws: Escape Chaos, Unlock Clarity, Achieve Epic Results

“Don't tell me how good you are, show me how good you are. There's a difference.”
― Sasha Laghonh