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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. What Do You Think?

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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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The Folly of Stretch Goals

Harvard Business Review

Let's dispense, once and for all, with the managerial absurdity known as "stretch goals." While it's true that renowned psychologists Edwin Locke and Gary Latham described goal setting as "the most effective managerial tool available," it's also true that no less a thinker than W.E. Stretch goals can be terribly demotivating.

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How VC John Doerr Sets (and Achieves) Goals

Harvard Business Review

Many of them utilize a goal-setting system Doerr calls “OKR,” for “objectives” and “key results.” Doerr stopped by HBR to talk about his passion for setting and reaching goals. I got to be a student of Andy Grove, one of the the greatest managers of his, or any other, era. They have.

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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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