See what industry and thought leaders are saying about Performance Enablement

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  • “Traditional Performance Management approaches are sorely misaligned with the future of work. The traditional assumptions —that roles are static, that work equals full-time jobs, and that performance is easily quantifiable—have been rendered obsolete. Drs. Goldberg and Colquitt use their decades of experience to reimagine employee performance — from something to be “managed” or “evaluated,” to something to be “enabled.”  They transform performance from a transactional compliance exercise into a dynamic process that builds direction, alignment, support, and progress.”

    Dr. John Boudreau

    Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Scientist, Center for Effective Organizations, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California

  • “Shifting from management to enablement changes the assumptions, actions, and impact of delivering performance.  The eight Performance Enablement Principles and four key Performance Enablement practices that Edie and Alan identify and make user-friendly come from both experience and research and lead to a valuable paradigm shift.”

    Dave Ulrich

    Rensis Likert Professor Emeritus, University of  Michigan; Partner, the RBL Group

  • “Performance Enablement brilliantly evolves performance management with a research-driven model that goes beyond traditional approaches. These scientist-practitioners show how goals plus continuous development help employees thrive in today's dynamic workplace. Essential reading for HR professionals, managers, and scholars.”

    Gary P. Latham

    Fellow Royal Society of Canada

  • "Performance Enablement explains why employers continue to struggle with managing employee performance and shows us how to rethink our simplistic mental models.  The new path they plot is based on how employees actually think and behave and what our business goals actually are.  It's the best model yet for fixing employee performance."

    Peter Cappelli

    George W. Taylor Professor of Management, Director - Center for Human Resources, The Wharton School, and Professor of Education, University of Pennsylvania

  • “In this important book, Colquitt and Goldberg challenge us to move beyond cosmetic reform and confront the mental models that have long kept organizations trapped in cycles of coercion and disengagement. Drawing on decades of research and hands-on experience, they offer a deeply human alternative: ‘enabling control’ rooted in purpose, autonomy, and genuine belonging. This is essential reading for anyone ready to leave behind the empty rituals of forced rankings and ‘pay for performance,’ and reimagine performance management as a source of meaning, growth, and shared accomplishment.”

    Otti Vogt

    Founder, Global Society for Good Leadership, Former Chief Transformation Officer in ING

  • “Colquitt and Goldberg reimagine how organizations think about performance. Their concept of performance enablement replaces outdated systems with a practical, human-centered approach that helps people grow, contribute, and succeed together. A smart, timely guide for today’s leaders.”

    Eva Sage-Gavin

    Board Director and former CHRO, Gap Inc., Sun Microsystems

  • "Finally, a book that makes sense of performance management. By reframing it as performance enablement, the authors provide a smarter, more humane, and more effective way to manage people and organizations."

    Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

    Professor of Business Psychology at UCL and Former Chief Innovation Officer at ManpowerGroup

  • “As a former CHRO, I've witnessed firsthand how traditional performance management can sometimes destroy more value than it creates. This brilliant work exposes why our current systems fail and presents a compelling new model. Goldberg and Colquitt don't just critique—they provide practical solutions for the performance enablement transformation every organization needs."

    Libby Sartain

    Former CHRO (Yahoo, Southwest Airlines), and Independent Director