These include using the IFCs Performance Standard 6 to guide the establishment of corporate biodiversity management systems, setting up IUCN Independent Review Panels to advise and monitor the implementation of these systems, certifying biodiversity management areas under the GDI, using the Biodiversity Offset Standard as needed, and adopting the GRI public reporting guidelines for biodiversity and ecosystem services.

FORBES: Producing Gas and Protecting Biodiversity in Mozambique

Nearly 60% of human-resources executives graded their own performance-management systems a C or below, according to a 2010 survey by Sibson Consulting Inc. and WorldatWork, a professional association.

WSJ: Performance Reviews Lose Steam

The performance of individual financial institutions was judged by their profits, their capital cushions and their risk-management systems, which were supposedly becoming ever more sophisticated but failed to detect the approaching systemic collapse.

ECONOMIST: In praise of the ideas of Russ Ackoff

The high-performance systems that Lockheed Martin develops require a range of technologies, including cloud computing, biometrics, information management, modeling and simulation, precision pointing, energy management and storage, optics and electro-optics, and nanotechnology.

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