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The soft strategies that go a long way in achieving the 100+% target per month
1. Conduct “team building exercises”
Take your team out for a drink. As a Sales officer remarked – “One beer, target full year” 
Business conversations to be avoided in such outings.
Conduct Key customer “meeting-eating” sessions once in a year.
2. Follow-ups, Meetings
Spaced out over the month else your team would think you are stalking them! A meeting of the entire team once in a month is essential. This helps the team members evaluate their performance vis-à-vis their counterparts- a single forum to address doubts, give and take inputs from each other.
3. Act as the Shield
When in the right, defend your team from higher management. After all, you are responsible for the actions taken by your team members. The buck stops with you.
Steps 1,3 result in Loyalty from customers and your team. They would be inspired to do their best for you.
Step 2 keeps the team on their toes, a reminder of the distance to be covered.
The snapshot life of a hyperactive (“vivacious”), fashion-crazy shopaholic journalist Rebacca Bloomwood who wants a job at a top fashion firm, but makes do with one at an office below, which happens to be a financial magazine of repute.
From fashion to finance. How? The editor, Luke, is taken in with the “freshness” of her article on injured sentiments of shoppers. She goes onto become a super-famous columnist as “The girl with the green scarf” with just 2 articles.
Meanwhile the heroine continues her dream shopping spree, running out on the credit limits of her gazillion cards. The debt collector is shown as a villain whom she puts off with a string of lies. When he manages to catch and expose her on a TV interview (serves her right), the crowd sympathy is with her – “Why did he ruin this girl’s life?!” types.
Her super sweet parents come to her rescue (“you and your mum define my life”) when friends and love have fled from her life. She manages to pay-off her debt in style – with the “the disaster that was me on TV” sympathy sale of her shopping spoils. She gets her man in the end. Happily ever after.
The comedy? The “I bump into one article –resulting- domino- effect” types.
The shopaholic line of thought is captured well, what with mannequins charming her to buying their wares. When asked why she shops so much, Becca gives a very helpless reply of how she feels the world is a better place when she shops. The only bits I found appealing in the movie.
Rating: Shift+Delete
Note: Replace Rebecca Bloomwood with the average 2008 American investment banker, the editor (Luke) with the investment bank, parents with the US government. You have the plot of the US financial crisis.
