About This Book

What if the biggest challenge facing your organisation isn't your people—but your performance system?

Every year, Nigerian organisations invest millions in performance appraisals, KPIs, scorecards, leadership training, and HR technology. Yet despite these investments, many continue to miss targets, lose top talent, reward mediocrity, and struggle to execute strategy.

In Performance Without Results, Jeremiah I. Jademi challenges one of the most common assumptions in business, that organisations fail because they lack talented people. Instead, he argues that most companies don't have a talent problem; they have a performance system problem.

Drawing from years of experience advising organisations across banking, energy, manufacturing, telecommunications, education, NGOs, and the public sector, this book reveals why traditional performance management often becomes an annual HR ritual instead of a strategic business tool.

Inside this practical guide, you'll discover how to:

• Build a performance management system that delivers measurable business results.
• Align strategy with execution across every level of the organisation.
• Design KPIs that drive outcomes instead of activity.
• Create a culture of accountability and high performance.
• Identify, develop, and retain high performers.
• Conduct performance reviews that change behaviour, not just complete paperwork.
• Implement a practical 90-day roadmap to transform your organisation's performance.

Written specifically for the realities of Nigerian and African organisations, this book combines global best practices with practical, locally relevant insights that leaders can implement immediately.

Whether you're a CEO, Managing Director, Founder, Board Member, HR Executive, Business Leader, or Manager, Performance Without Results will challenge how you think about performance and provide the tools to build an organisation where strategy is executed, accountability is real, and results become sustainable.

Stop managing performance. Start building a performance system that wins.