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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. The need to have people fall in love with the process of working to achieve goals as opposed to the goal itself will allow quick change and more innovation.

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Favorites of 2011: Team Building, Leadership & Innovation Blog Articles

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? If we are to really make your organization function and achieve high performance, we need more than window dressing, recreation and placing Fish stickers on the wall. Get us no-where.

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Great Quote: On System of Management by Deming

QAspire

Management by Objectives, quotas, incentive pay, business plans, put together separately, division by division, cause further loss, unknown and unknowable. Organization starts being driven by numbers alone and the human aspects of work (respect for people, intrinsic motivation, creativity, innovation etc.)

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3 Valuable Insights Leaders Can Learn From Neuroscience

Tanveer Naseer

Neuroscientists such as Matthew Lieberman of the University of California at Los Angeles have also shown that when the neural circuits for being reactive drive behavior, some other neural circuits become less active—those associated with executive thinking, that is, controlling oneself, paying attention, innovating, planning, and problem solving.

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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? The guess-work of how many managerial layers to have causes dis-trust and halts any innovation within the organization. Get us no-where.

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What Peter Drucker Knew About 2020

Harvard Business Review

Virtually every executive is eager to see his or her organization innovate. Every organization will have to learn to innovate” on a constant basis, Drucker wrote. Embrace employee autonomy. And yet there is ample evidence that most organizations remain paragons of command-and-control.

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How Overfocusing on Goals Can Hold Us Back

Harvard Business Review

One of the most sacred texts in the business world is Peter Drucker’s classic, The Practice of Management , which introduced the concept of “ management by objectives ” (MBO). ” Most modern managers take this as a given. Of course, reprogramming people and organizations is no easy feat.

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