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3 Valuable Insights Leaders Can Learn From Neuroscience

Tanveer Naseer

Elliot Berkman of the University of Oregon, one of the leading researchers into the neuroscience of goal setting and habit formation, has proposed another reason why explanations of this sort are powerful motivators. The employee’s goal is tightly connected with the purpose of the job.

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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? Systems-Drive-Behavior if you are seeing outcomes that you don’t want then we must examine the system that created that behavior. Get us no-where. How do we Fix This?

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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. Keep them connected.

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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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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 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.

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Hospitals Can’t Improve Without Better Management Systems

Harvard Business Review

In all of the loud and necessary debates over how to reform health care in the United States before it bankrupts the country, there is one element that has been continually overlooked: the management systems employed by hospitals. This 20 th century system essentially has leadership establishing objectives for managers to achieve.

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