Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2016

As a reaction to industrial reforms and the strength of unions, a Hard Nosed style of leadership was prominent from 1910-1939, management’s attempt to take stronger hands, recapture some of the Captain of Industry style and build solidity into an economy plagued by the Depression. Most corporate leaders are two management styles behind.

Management 70

Management Hostile Takeover Management by Objectives Objective 70

Deming Institute

MARCH 25, 2019

What can we do…working against this massive thing called the system. Comments from Joseph, a South African worker, “they do not make me a person”. Management by Objective, incentive pay, business plans cause further loss, unknown and unknowable. Learned from Dr. Deming; school and work are the same institution.

Senge 63

Senge Education Deming Industry 63

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2015

As a reaction to industrial reforms and the strength of unions, a Hard Nosed style of leadership was prominent from 1910-1939, management’s attempt to take stronger hands, recapture some of the Captain of Industry style and build solidity into an economy plagued by the Depression. Most corporate leaders are two management styles behind.

Hostile Takeover 50

Hostile Takeover Management by Objectives Objective Scientific Management 50

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Bromides of – team excellence, Good-to-Great, Management By Objectives, etc… That we have all heard and wondered, what the fuck does that mean? Every job I have ever had I have found myself skeptically wondering if what I think I am doing and what I am actually doing match. How do we Fix This?

Team Building 156

Team Building Team System Management by Objectives 156

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 30, 2011

At first I thought I would do this based upon traffic and page hits, then I thought NOPE! Bromides of – team excellence, Good-to-Great, Management By Objectives, etc… That we have all heard and wondered, what the fuck does that mean? michael cardus is create-learning. 12/30/11 – Blog article. 12/31/11 – NEW YEARS!

Team Building 99

Team Building Article Blog Team 99

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

Many of them utilize a goal-setting system Doerr calls “OKR,” for “objectives” and “key results.” When I left Intel in 1980 to help others start companies and start one of my own, I took the slide deck that he had used to teach the objectives and results system — 30 or so slides.

Goal 8

Goal Objective Venture Capitalist MBO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

Yet, according to Donald Sull’s research in the March issue of HBR, almost half of top executives cannot connect the dots between their company’s strategic priorities; and two out of three middle managers say they simply do not understand their strategic direction. Does this sound familiar?

Strategy 8

Strategy Balanced Scorecard Sull Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

As a manager, you may not be working on a fishing boat or in armed combat. Do you have that kind of bond? 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?

Bond 16

Bond Resistance Management by Objectives Maturity 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2012

Deming insisted that companies, "Eliminate management by objective." The enormity of the problem causes people to freeze up, and the extrinsic motivator of money crowds out the intrinsic motivators of learning and growth. Ever wonder why people will so often write down an item they've already completed on their to-do list ?

Goal 14

Goal Metrics Deming Banking 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

Instead, his measurement advice was linked to his belief in “managing by objectives,” and above all urged managers to “focus on results.” ” The challenge is that all too often, managers haven’t asked what results they ultimately want to achieve. Membership isn’t our business.

Drucker 8

Drucker Objective Self-aware Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

It is information,” Drucker wrote, “that enables knowledge workers to do their job.” Every organization will have to learn to innovate” on a constant basis, Drucker wrote. Knowledge workers have to manage themselves,” Drucker advised. Build true learning organizations. “If Our age is such a period of transformation.”.

Drucker 11

Drucker Survey Learning-by-Doing Knowledge Management 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

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. Alternatively, learn the capabilities of processes and how to improve them. Eliminate MBO.

Deming 9

Deming Management Senge Taylorism 9