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3 Popular Goal-Setting Techniques Managers Should Avoid

Harvard Business Review

In 2002, professors Edwin A. Latham, two of the best known academic researchers on goal-setting, wrote an article in American Psychologist summarizing their 35 years of research. Among their findings: Setting specific, difficult goals consistently leads to higher performance than just urging people to do their best. SMART Goals.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

If you want great teams, you build them for collaboration. To get you started I will expand on the list that MIT research scientist Peter Gloor calls the “genetic code” of collaboration: learning networks, ethical principles, trust and self-organization, knowledge sharing, and transparency. 4) Knowledge Sharing -.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. When goals are only in financial terms, the company is disproportionately lopsided. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. Executives never stayed long.