From the monthly archives:

September 2009

question markIn the last post I referenced MRE’s – Minimum Required Employees. These are the insidious employees that linger inside an organization and survive by doing just enough to stay off the performance management radar.

They can’t read the map, never mind find the extra mile.

The post before that was about misleading prospects.

I guess it’s September Sales Screw-ups this month.

What would you do with an employee that blows off a solid lead?

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MREs Last Three Years, Just Like Marginal Employees

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