"Do not try to change yourself," argues Peter Drucker in Managing Oneself. "You are unlikely to succeed. But work hard to improve the way you perform." This book takes that advice to heart and uses evidence-based methods to show how to act on it. 8 Steps to High Performance helps people focus...

Establishing an effective link between corporate strategy and employee performance has traditionally been seen as a function of organizational structure and internal marketing-that is, of getting the right compensation systems in place to reward the desired behavior, and relentlessly...