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Managing Remote Employees: Lessons Ancient Rome and Today

Great Leadership By Dan

This post was recently published as a guest post on SmartBlog on Leadership : Question: What do these five “established” jobs: - Call Center Representative. Consultants. Social Media Manager. Telework Manager or Coordinator. Online Advertising Manager. The Colosseum. ?This Salesperson. Truck Driver.

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Management Styles

Strategy Driven

As a reaction to industrial reforms and the strength of unions, a Hard Nosed style of leadership was prominent from 1910-1939, management’s attempt to take stronger hands, recapture some of the Captain of Industry style and build solidity into an economy plagued by the Depression. They were not just “old school.”

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The Big Picture of Business – Corporate Cultures Reflect Business Progress and Growth.

Strategy Driven

As a reaction to industrial reforms and the strength of unions, a Hard Nosed style of leadership was prominent from 1910-1939, management’s attempt to take stronger hands, recapture some of the Captain of Industry style and build solidity into an economy plagued by the Depression. They were not just “old school.”

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Lead With Your Heart, Not Just Your Head

Harvard Business Review

As a manager, you may not be working on a fishing boat or in armed combat. Or have you been taught to manage by objectives and metrics to monitor performance, and that bonding with your team members will be seen as a distraction at best or weakness at worst? Let's look at some of the reasons impersonal leadership fails.

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What Peter Drucker Knew About 2020

Harvard Business Review

Drucker urged executives to push decision-making and accountability all the way down through the organization as early as 1954, when he introduced the concept of Management by Objectives. Knowledge management Leadership Managing people' It’s no wonder why. Embrace employee autonomy.

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Guest Blogger George L. Morrisey: Are You Ready for Strategic Planning?

leaderCommunicator

GEORGE MORRISEY, CSP, CPAE is one of the top authors, speakers, seminar leaders and consultants in the field of management and recently retired at the age of 85. A pioneer in the process known as Management By Objectives (MBO), he wrote the first how-to book on MBO for managers in 1970. David Grossman. _.

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Where are you on the management scale of newbie to expert hacker?

Ask Atma

And the Fundaments of managing by objectives : Cascading of organizational goals and objectives, (For example, a top level goal of increasing sales by 20% over a defined period may require a bottom level goal of increasing marketing effectiveness or marketing coverage in order to reach the sales set.). Human Resource Management.