Top Performer? Sure You Are! (Me Too!)
August 20, 2007 by Sean Kelly
Filed under Business
(FranchisePick.Com)Interesting insight from the HR Capitalist about everyone else’s delusions about themselves*:
Are You Among the Top 10% of Performers In Your Company?
Sure you are… and so is everyone else…
In a classic case of Narcissism, a recent BusinessWeek poll asked 2,000 middle managers and execs that very question. The answer? Yes… 1800 times. 90% of respondents said they were in the top 10%. And we wonder why confrontation in Performance Management is such an issue…
Read on: Are You Among the Top 10%…
* You and I continue to be the only superior beings around here
Don’t miss Des Walsh’s brilliant post over at Business and Blogging written by… why, me! I must be a top 10 percenter after all!
Sean Kelly on The Marketing Secrets of Steve (Crikey!) Irwin
Some other good links spotted around b5 business channel today:
Startup Spark: Carnival of Entrepreneurs #35: August 20, 2007
Copyblogger: Monday Morning Link Karma
LifeDev: Craving Some Crank? Try Oatmeal Instead
BrandCurve: UPS Employees Don’t Live the Brand Image
Ha, that’s good. Perhaps the top 10% read Business Week and respond to polls? The bottom 90% surely wouldn’t do that, right?
Could be, Doug. But more likely, the top 10% are out managing while the 90% are slacking in the breakroom, drinking coffee and reading Businessweek!