What if everything you've been taught about managing performance was built for a workplace that no longer exists? Dr. Edie Goldberg returns to A World of Difference to unpack the research behind her new book, revealing why the system most companies use to drive performance is quietly working against them.
Topics Covered
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Why “coercive control” — carrots, sticks, and fear-based motivation — is the hidden operating system behind most performance management, and why the research says it doesn't work
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The shift from measuring performance to enabling it: transparency, trust, autonomy, and connecting work to purpose
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Why only 4% of employees revisit their goals mid-year, and how to make goal-setting actually motivating
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What a real “performance feedback culture” looks like, and the four conditions that predict it
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How AI can genuinely support performance enablement (goal clarity, personalized development, reduced bias) — and where it can quietly go wrong
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The bias built into hiring and performance systems, and what a well-designed AI process can do differently
Guest Bio
Dr. Edie Goldberg is founder and president of E. L. Goldberg and Associates, a globally recognized expert in talent management and the future of work, and a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. She is co-author of Performance Enablement: A Model for Driving Organizational Performance and The Inside Gig: How Sharing Talent Across Boundaries Unleashes Organizational Capacity.
Timestamps
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00:00 – Cold open
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01:13 – Why Edie wrote this book now
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05:34 – Coercive control as a management strategy
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09:13 – The new paradigm: enabling control
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14:27 – The elephant in the room: managers spend 90% of their time doing the work
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21:44 – Why goal-setting fails (the 4% problem)
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28:11 – AI's real impact on performance management
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37:14 – Bias in AI hiring and performance systems
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44:11 – Where to find Edie and her book
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48:00 – Passport Stamp: New Zealand (a shout out to the Kiwis who listen from Aotearoa, the Maori word for New Zealand)
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