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Results vs. Process. Achieving Goals While Improving the Work

Mike Cardus

Originally came across this video here ‘ What Management by Objectives Does Wrong & Hoshin Kanri Does Right ’. Its applicability to management and teams is powerful. How are your processes driving the goals you work to achieve? This is similar to the S Curve of Team Development. What do you think?

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Write SMART objectives & Goals

Rapid BI

How to write SMART Objectives and SMARTER objectives for business and personal development. SMARTER objectives form part of the MBO, Managing by objectives approach made popular by Drucker. SMARTER formatted objectives are of value in Performance Management as well as project management.

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Managing Remote Employees: Lessons Ancient Rome and Today

Great Leadership By Dan

Again, this is not a new concept - the management guru Peter Ducker wrote about it back in the 1950s in his book Management by Objectives. Unfortunately, his ideas were ruined by management consultants who turned “MBO” into a bureaucratic mess. A shared purpose, goals, and value system. Team development.

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Management Styles

Strategy Driven

Management by Objectives came into vogue in 1965 and was the prevailing leadership style until 1990. Other important components of business (training, marketing, research, team building and productivity) were all accomplished according to goals, objectives and tactics. They were not just “old school.”

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“Sometimes I feel Like Team Building is Sweet Frosting on a Shit Cake”

Mike Cardus

Bromides of – team excellence, Good-to-Great, Management By Objectives, etc… That we have all heard and wondered, what the fuck does that mean? Succession planning, training & development all become clearer, and tied to the business goals. Get us no-where. Once you determine each persons capabilities.

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

Strategy Driven

Management by Objectives came into vogue in 1965 and was the prevailing leadership style until 1990. Other important components of business (training, marketing, research, team building and productivity) were all accomplished according to goals, objectives and tactics. They were not just “old school.”

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How Overfocusing on Goals Can Hold Us Back

Harvard Business Review

Then you would create a mechanism to reward the robot for moving toward that goal and to punish it for moving farther away, so that over time it finds its way out. It’s geographically as close as possible to its objective but it can’t get there. ” Most modern managers take this as a given.

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