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Performance management is changing. Adapt your approach along with it.For decades, performance management has been seen as an annual chore by managers and HR departments alike. But this process is changing, and there are ways to make it more effective at all levels of your organization.If you read nothing else on performance management in your organization, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you make your process more adaptable, conduct better feedback conversations, and encourage the growth of your employees.This book will inspire you to:Learn where current performance management processes are falling shortOvercome organizational bias to evaluate performance fairlySculpt employees'jobs to meet their skill sets and interestsBoost collaboration by aligning goals across functionsUse people analytics ethically and transparentlyHelp your people identify and use their strengthsThis collection of articles includes'The Performance Management Revolution,'by Peter Cappelli and Anna Tavis;'Reinventing Performance Management,'by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall;'Getting 360-Degree Feedback Right,'by Maury A. Peiperl;'The Set-Up-to-Fail Syndrome,'by Jean-François Manzoni and Jean-Louis Barsoux;'Job Sculpting: The Art of Retaining Your Best People,'by Timothy Butler and James Waldroop;'Performance Management Shouldn't Kill Collaboration,'by Heidi K. Gardner and Ivan Matviak;'The Happy Tracked Employee,'by Ben Waber;'Don't Let Metrics Undermine Your Business,'by Michael Harris and Bill Tayler;'Numbers Take Us Only So Far,'by Maxine Williams;'Managers Can't Do It All,'by Diane Gherson and Lynda Gratton; and'Creating Sustainable Performance,'by Gretchen Spreitzer and Christine Porath.HBR's 10 Must Reads paperback series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further. HBR's 10 Must Reads series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. Harvard Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever‐changing business environment.

A Washington Post BestsellerNot all collaboration is smart. Make sure you do it right.Professional service firms face a serious challenge. Their clients increasingly need them to solve complex problems—everything from regulatory compliance to cybersecurity, the kinds of problems that only teams of multidisciplinary experts can tackle.Yet most firms have carved up their highly specialized, professional experts into narrowly defined practice areas, and collaborating across these silos is often messy, risky, and expensive. Unless you know why you're collaborating and how to do it effectively, it may not be smart at all. That's especially true for partners who have built their reputations and client rosters independently, not by working with peers.In Smart Collaboration, Heidi K. Gardner shows that firms earn higher margins, inspire greater client loyalty, attract and retain the best talent, and gain a competitive edge when specialists collaborate across functional boundaries. Gardner, a former McKinsey consultant and Harvard Business School professor now lecturing at Harvard Law School, has spent over a decade conducting in-depth studies of numerous global professional service firms. Her research with clients and the empirical results of her studies demonstrate clearly and convincingly that collaboration pays, for both professionals and their firms.But Gardner also offers powerful prescriptions for how leaders can foster collaboration, move to higher-margin work, increase client satisfaction, improve lateral hiring, decrease enterprise risk, engage workers to contribute their utmost, break down silos, and boost their bottom line.With case studies and real-world insights, Smart Collaboration delivers an authoritative case for the value of collaboration to today's professionals, their firms, and their clients and shows you exactly how to achieve it.