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Better Management Will Help Drive Productivity Improvements

The Horizons Tracker

It’s less common for poor management to be targeted to explain lackluster productivity, but research from Stanford’s Nick Bloom suggests that is a mistake. Weak management Bloom’s World Management Survey was established in 2004 to measure management practices across hundreds of medium-sized firms in the likes of the U.K.,

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How to Manage People in Your Small Business

Strategy Driven

People are your business’s most valuable assets. However, they also represent assets that may be difficult to manage. Because owners frequently overlook employee management when launching a business, it is important to acquire this skill and cultivate it. Design Training Courses for Online Learning.

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How to Become a Better Manager

Strategy Driven

One of the most important aspects of business is management, yet this can be one of the most tricky and stressful responsibilities for entrepreneurs. However, failing to show good management traits can have a profound impact on the productivity of the workforce, leading to poor results and lower profits.

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Leading by Cause

Lead Change Blog

With a similar theme, Michael Harris and Bill Taylor’s Harvard Business Review article, “ Don’t Let Metrics Undermine Your Business ” said, “A company can easily lose sight of its strategy and instead focus strictly on the metrics that are meant to represent it.” . Logic tells us we can manage cause, but only measure effect.

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IT Manager Job Description and Duties (JD) Template

HR Digest

A well-written IT manager job description will ensure that the right candidate is hired. This is why hiring managers are expected to put in the best work when writing one. Who is an IT manager? An IT manager is a manager that oversees the entire job of the information and technology department.

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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

Another aspect of the challenges faced by FinTech leaders is managing teams through a series of transformations successfully. To do so, successful management of their expectations is essential. FinTech managed to do that by making financial services accessible and affordable globally. Probably, yes.

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How to Be a Real Leader And Great Manager

Lead from Within

From time to time through the years, I’ve written on the difference between leadership and management. I am revisiting the subject now because it’s not enough to understand that leadership and management are two different things. Of course we do have defined tasks as leaders, and managers have a specific role to play too.