For decades, teachers, managers and parents have assumed that the performance of students and employees fits what's known as the bell curve — in most activities, we expect a few people to be ...

Imagine you have 100 employees and I ask you to graph them in terms of performance. Most likely your chart will look like a bell curve ... a power-law mindset to employee performance.

there seems to be a mindset shift in assessing employee performance. Over 30% of organisations have scrapped performance rating based on the conventional bell-curve method, while a small but ...