Ride Harder -- Seven Steps to Improve Employee Individual Performance: Seven Steps to Improve Employee Individual Performance

Author: Karen Baddeley
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: Many management textbooks tend to focus more on theory and less on practical issues. It is undeniable that theory is indeed important, but if managers cannot apply theory to practice, the result will inevitably be a waste of time and money. Some believe that managers will gradually figure out how to apply theory to practice through their work and accumulate practical experience, but this idea has a fatal flaw. Based on my experience, this will not happen because the heavy daily workload and sense of urgency make it impossible for managers to do so. Even those who are enthusiastic and try to accumulate experience from practice will get bogged down in trivialities. Many management textbooks tend to focus more on theory and less on practical issues. It is undeniable that theory is indeed important, but if managers cannot apply theory to practice, the result will inevitably be a waste of time and money. Some believe that managers will gradually figure out how to apply theory to practice through their work and accumulate practical experience, but this idea has a fatal flaw. Based on my experience, this will not happen because the heavy daily workload and sense of urgency make it impossible for managers to do so. Even those who are enthusiastic and try to accumulate experience from practice will get bogged down in trivialities.