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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. Results without a process is luck. Process without results is waste. How are your processes driving the goals you work to achieve?

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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

The Human Relations style of management flourished from 1940-1964. Under it, people were managed. Processes were managed as collections of people. Management by Objectives came into vogue in 1965 and was the prevailing leadership style until 1990. Most corporate leaders are two management styles behind.

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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? Creating a kick ass organization, like baking a great cake cannot be done by ‘winging it’ you have to a process and you MUST adhere to it. Get us no-where.

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

Strategy Driven

The Human Relations style of management flourished from 1940-1964. Under it, people were managed. Processes were managed as collections of people. Management by Objectives came into vogue in 1965 and was the prevailing leadership style until 1990. Most corporate leaders are two management styles behind.

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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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Hospitals Can’t Improve Without Better Management Systems

Harvard Business Review

And yet, many of those ardent reformers are furiously running in place because they do not have the management system to support their goals. Worse yet, old-fashioned management-by-objective systems often work to actually undermine all of the good works by those frontline improvement teams. Insight Center.

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