Lessons about Performance Management from Famous People

Achieving the full vision of the enterprise performance management framework embedded with business analytics involves more than selecting one of its many methodologies and then purchasing software to install and implement the solutions. It requires individuals with talent and skills. Below is a list of famous people who have inspired me and exemplify the traits valuable to achieving that full vision. To read my description of these people, read my article “Lessons from Historical Figures about Performance Management”

• Socrates
• Thomas Jefferson
• Orson Welles
• Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson, Sam Snead, Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus
• Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie and Benny Goodman
• Billy Wilder and Alfred Hitchcock
• Thomas Edison
• Richard Feynman
• Gene Kelly
• Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and Audrey Hepburn
• Edward R. Murrow
• “Carnac the Magnificent” (Johnny Carson)
• Red Grange, Gale Sayers and Walter Payton

My intent with the article is to demonstrate through examples that strong character traits in performance management advocates are central to advancing the adoption and integration of analytics-based performance management’s portfolio of methodologies.