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3 Valuable Insights Leaders Can Learn From Neuroscience

Tanveer Naseer

This is a cultural intervention in which leaders seek out a few employees who are already known to be master motivators, adept at inspiring strategic awareness among their colleagues. These master motivators are invited to recommend specific measures that enable better ways of working.

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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. But you need to motivate your people to get things done. 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?

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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

The goal was to optimize the outputs that could be generated from a specific set of inputs. While schools dedicated specifically to business had been offering classes throughout the 1800s in Europe, the economic juggernaut US gained its first institution of higher education in management with the 1881 founding of the Wharton School.

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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.).

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Edwards Deming : the former an industrialist who equated machines and human beings (both to be managed for maximum output), the latter a humanist who saw the individual as internally motivated to do good, meaningful work. Teach and institute leadership to improve all job functions. Substitute leadership methods for improvement.

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