Hit Me with Your Best Shot: Performance Management Feedback

Connie is a co-founder of SixFigureStart, a success coaching firm for college students and professionals.

Most Fortune 500 companies agree that 360 degree feedback (feedback from your boss, your peers, and your team) is the best way to identify and then improve your performance on the job. These four basic principles form the logical underpinning of the 360 degree feedback theory:

  • Behavior can be observed and measured.
  • Behavior is a direct reflection of leadership.
  • Leadership is a direct reflection of performance.
  • Performance can be observed and measured.

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After the Bear Stearns Bailout – Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop?

Late Sunday night, in a conference room high up at the troubled investment bank’s Midtown headquarters, Bear Stearns allowed itself to be sold to JPMorgan at the fire sale price of $2 per share, in order to avoid impending bankruptcy. At $236 million for the extensive prime brokerage and clearing operations of the 85-year old investment bank, JP Morgan seems to have gotten a better deal on Bear Stearns than anyone can remember since the last Barney’s warehouse sale.

Indeed, some high flying hedge-fund managers have paid more for their vacation homes than Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase paid for the entire Bear Stearns operation, including the bank’s Madison Ave headquarters, said to be worth at least a billion on its own.

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Creative Business in the Digital Era

The Creative Business in the Digital Era seminar will help you understand the opportunities presented by open IP (intellectual property) and how being open should be a central part of your creative business model.

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Voice of Experience: Annemarie G. DiCola, CEO of Trepp LLC

businesswomen.jpg“I don’t like the word balance,” Annemarie DiCola said, when asked how she balances her career and personal life. “It implies a perfect symmetry.”

Annemarie DiCola is the Chief Executive Officer of Trepp LLC, a leading technology company in the commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) sector. Ms. DiCola began her career in law after she earned her degree at New York University Law School and worked at a private law firm. Due to some unexpected twists and turns in her career, she found herself at Trepp.

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Reviews: NYC Top 3 Power Lunch Destinations

639111716_e00fa9ef84_m.jpgIt’s been a while since we last ran a restaurant review in The Glass Hammer. But that doesn’t mean we haven’t been eating! Here, we offer you our three top recommendations for downtown power-lunches in New York City.

Our top three …

  • Nobu
  • Bouley
  • Chanterelle

Check out our reviews after the jump …

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The everywoman Conference Scotland “Maximising your potential and growing your business”

We are delighted to invite you to attend The everywoman Conference Scotland. The conference is a unique opportunity, giving you rare access through presentations and workshops to some of the UK’s most successful women in business – women who have taken an idea and through hard work and determination made it into a successful business.

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Financial Technologies Women Should Know More About (Part 1)

Contributed by Sophie Fletcher

479370088_2e7091fc6e_m.jpgTechnology is changing the financial arena. No longer limited by execution venue, exchange or geographical brokers and dealers, trading moves to where liquidity is greatest and so, the market evolves. As players in this dynamic market, women should be familiar with the technology behind the process of making educated trades. The Glass Hammer has compiled a brief run-down of the top technologies our readers should be familiar with. The first in this five part series is Algorithmic Trading technology.

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United We Stand: Why Collaboration and Identifying Your Strengths is Key

Successful collaboration brings all the good things Corporate America has to offer:

  • Promotions
  • Salary Increases
  • Great year end bonuses
  • Stock Options
  • Fun at work

So it’s surprising that more people don’t practice collaboration at work on a more consistent basis. Perhaps there are not enough role models out there. If you are lucky enough to have a manager that collaborates well, take note and try to learn from his or her behavior. On the chance that you don’t, here are some behaviors you may want to think about developing, in order to improve your capacity for collaboration: Read more

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“Out at Work” – Interview with Arden Hoffman, GALN at Goldman Sachs

In response to recent reader requests, The Glass Hammer decided to publish an article on special issues that gay and lesbian people might face in the workplace. We wanted to find out what it’s like to be “out at work” at a major financial institution, and offer some advice to our readers about how to make the most of networks and affinity groups for gay and lesbian employees, as well as how to address sexual orientation issues at work.

To help us examine this topic, we interviewed Arden Hoffman, Vice President and Head of Learning and Development for the Technology division of Goldman Sachs, and former Co-Chair of GALN, Goldman’s gay and lesbian network of employees. Ms. Hoffman has been at Goldman for four and a half years, and was head of GALN for three and a half years.

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The 3rd Annual Euromoney Vietnam Investment Forum:Sustaining Growth and Reform in Asia’s Next Tiger

With an average annual growth in GDP of 7.4% from 2000 to the present, Vietnam has become Asia’s second-fastest-growing economy. The “investor story” is multi-faceted: post-WTO strengthening of the manufacturing and export sectors, the one time opportunity represented by the privatization/equitization process, the booming and developing stock market, massive infrastructure investment opportunities, and an increasingly regionally integrated economy; just to name a few.

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