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Management Styles

Strategy Driven

Organizations should coordinate management skills into its overall corporate strategy, in order to satisfy customer needs profitably, draw together the components for practical strategies and implement strategic requirements to impact the business. This is my review of how management styles have evolved.

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Tyranny of Metrics

Deming Institute

In America, the use of metrics can be tracked from Frederick Taylor’s Scientific Management (1911), the New Public Administration of the 1980s and the 2001 No Child Left Behind program and beyond. He saw the terrible waste that occurred in organizations due to the misuse of measurement.

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Fueling Business Process Management with the Automation Engine that Can!

Strategy Driven

Organizations deploy automation technologies as the primary resource in their Business Process Management. Now experts in efficiency—top executives—are deploying RPA throughout their organization in order to automate the majority of the data-entry, repetitive, manual and shared services of the organization.

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

Strategy Driven

Organizations should coordinate management skills into its overall corporate strategy, in order to satisfy customer needs profitably, draw together the components for practical strategies and implement strategic requirements to impact the business. This is my review of how management styles have evolved.

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If You Want to Motivate Employees, Stop Trusting Your Instincts

Harvard Business Review

Few topics have received more attention in talent management than motivation, defined as the deliberate attempt to influence employees’ behaviors with the goal of enhancing their performance, and in turn their organizational effectiveness. In our view, there are four major reasons: A simplistic approach to goal setting.

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The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Harvard Business Review

More importantly, business education needs to evolve once again, revising its goals to educate leaders of the future who have a new set of skills: sustainable global thinking, entrepreneurial and innovative talents, and decision-making based on practical wisdom. Individualized.

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The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Harvard Business Review

The scientific management emphasis on efficiency and profit at all costs can no longer take precedence over human values. Students should be offered a range of educational options to choose from, depending on their personal goals, ambitions, capabilities, and risk tolerance. Individualized.