Performance Leadership - By Frank Buytendijk

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"Performance Leadership" In The Press

Profit Magazine just published an interview, describing the key concepts in "Performance Leadership". Another review of the book was published by FSN. Intelligent Enterprise also reviewed the book. Also check Ron Dimon's blog.

Book Signing On Gartner Business Intelligence Summit, Europe

"Performance comes from Venus, Management from Mars"

A former Gartner Research Vice President, and currently an Oracle Vice President and Fellow, Frank Buytendijk is a highly experienced professional speaker. Book Frank for a presentation, by contacting him directly. See a small part of his book promotion presentation below.

Performance Leadership - The Next Level of Performance Management

Why do so many scorecard projects fail?
Why do managers treat information as a source of power to be protected, instead of an asset to be exploited?
Why are there so many political budget games?

Clearly there has to be a better way of performance management. After witnessing countless initiatives fail, Oracle thought leader and former Gartner analyst Frank Buytendijk challenges conventional wisdom on the best practices of performance management and describes a new framework that predicts and improves organizational behavior—which in turn maximizes business performance both inside and outside an organization.

In Performance Leadership, Buytendijk takes a breakthrough approach that focuses on people’s behaviors both within and outside of the organization. He presents the “next practices” of performance management, revealing that the trick is to focus on human behaviors to create strategic alignment across the organization. After reviewing the most popular methodologies today, Frank shows how predicting and correcting human behaviors is the key to achieving your desired results.

Performance management is intended to support decision making, manage business operations, and drive people’s behavior. In most cases, however, the behavioral side is forgotten. This Performance Leadership framework enables you to:

Motivate your people to follow a common path
Avoid dysfunctional behaviors
Create strategic alignment—all people taking the right actions
Raise the bar of expected performance

Full of case studies, practical examples, and unconventional thinking, Performance Leadership will help you create better management processes and performance indicators that will help you make the most of your scorecards and strategic plans.

Our performance landscape is still evolving, as it continues to be formed by strict regulations on compliance and transparency, a global economy, social pressures of greater corporate responsibility, and a wave of new business innovations. In this ever-changing new business environment, Performance Leadership is a forward-thinking roadmap you cannot afford to be without.

Read the Lost Chapters

Exclusive content on this website, providing an overview of current performance management methodologies, and a extensive drill down on the strengths and weaknesses of the balanced scorecard. Read the Lost Chapters here.