Managing smart: Enabling under-performers to become valued contributors

Above most underperformers stands a manager whose own behaviour is the very reason for that underperformance. These authors have suggestions for changing that behaviour. Organizations have a low tolerance for under-performers. Yet research conducted by these authors strongly indicates that the cause of under performance is not necessarily a lack of talent, but the very - and very wrong - behaviour of managers. Changing that behaviour will enable lowly regarded subordinates to perform and produce.