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Managing Remote Employees: Lessons Ancient Rome and Today

Great Leadership By Dan

You appointed him, you watched his chariot and baggage train disappear over the hill in a cloud of dust and that was that. There was, therefore, no question of appointing a man who was not fully trained, or not quite up to the job: you knew that everything depended on his being the best man for the job before he set off.

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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.). Measurable. Achievable.

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Institute on-the-job training. Management by objectives, quotas, incentive pay, business plans, put together separately, division by division, cause further loss, unknown and unknowable. It may be cliché to say that technology is changing our businesses today at a rapid pace, but that doesn’t mean it’s not true.

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