"To be successful in the business world and reach your full potential in life, it's not enough to be simply competent. Our modern, super-competitive world is full of opportunities for the go-getter, but to take advantage of them, it's essential to become "SuperCompetent." The SuperCompetent...

The basics -- What is a performance review? -- The performance review process -- Involve your employee -- Gathering information -- Observe and track employee progress -- Request an employee self-appraisal -- Solicit 360-degree feedback -- Collect additional resources -- Evaluating performance --...

Expand capacity -- People with a purpose -- Drinking out of a firehose wastes a lot of water -- Human capital is the future! -- Laser focus directs performance -- Boundless energy fuels performance -- Unstoppable drive propels performance -- Rest -- Eat -- Move -- You have the power

A large, mature and robust economic literature on pay for performance now exists, which provides a useful framework for thinking about pay for performance systems. I use the lessons of the literature to discuss how to design and implement pay for performance in practice. -- incentives ; pay for...