Sheryl O'Loughlin

Peer Review is the Foundation for Measuring Employee Performance...but does it help employees realize their full potential? Does feedback improve a company's bottom line?Business consultant Carol Sanford has spent 40 years developing people and systems to motivate lasting innovation. Fortune 500 companies like Google, P&G and DuPont hired her to challenge executives to rethink management and work design. By popular demand, her new book series takes on the most toxic common practices hurting business today and presents the surprising remedies to achieve extraordinary outcomes. Management depends on feedback to improve employee performance and the company's bottom line. Peer reviews are often foundational to this process. But is this decades-old tradition getting the results you need? No More Feedback: Cultivating Consciousness at Work, Book 1 in Carol Sanford's new Toxic Practice book series, breaks down the misconceived notions on feedback and reveals the systems needed to achieve the results business really want: employees fulfilling their potential.This book disrupts commonly-held beliefs to explain: How feedback can (and often does ) ruin employee development. The impact of feedback on our 3 core human capabilities. The 6 premises to develop effective work systems. How to see business as a living ecosystem set up for sustainable growth and success. The developmental alternative to feedback that leads to flourishing, self-regulating employees Packed with true examples from Carol's extensive career and personal stories, No More Feedback: Cultivating Consciousness at Work identifies the flaws in the feedback trap, why employees should be given the power to self-regulate and the tools essential to long-term developmental success.

The former CEO of Clif Bar, Co-founder of Plum, and serial entrepreneur offers insights about launching and growing a business while maintaining a fulfilled life in this practical guide filled with hard-won advice culled from the author's own sometimes dark, raw experiences. With a foreword by Steve Blank. Aspiring entrepreneurs are told that to launch a business, you must go all in, devoting every resource and moment to making it work. But following this advice comes at an enormous personal cost: divorce, addiction, even suicide. It means sacrificing the intangibles that make life worth living. Sheryl O'Loughlin knows there is a better way. In Killing It, she shares the wisdom she's gained from her successful experiences launching a company from the ground up (Plum), running two fast-growing companies (Clif Bar and REBBL), and mentoring aspiring entrepreneurs (Stanford University). She tells it like it is: If you don't invest in your wellbeing, your business will not succeed, nor will you. Sheryl knows firsthand the difficulty of balancing the needs of her growing family with her physical and mental health, while managing other work and life challenges. In this warm, honest, and wise handbook, she gives you the essentials for killing it in business-without killing the rest of your life. Filled with real-life examples and anecdotes, Killing It addresses common questions including: * How do you prepare your significant other for your business venture?* How do you time launching and growing your business with the ebb and flow of family life?* How do you find joy in the day-to-day?* How do you maintain meaningful, supportive friendships?* How do you walk away and start again? The ultimate life and business course, Killing It gives entrepreneurs the tools they need to start their enterprise and thrive-both in the office and at home.