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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 more I read and study and apply my trade of Team Building & Leadership the more I see the good, the bad and the ugly. Get us no-where. That statement needs some unpacking.

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Hospitals Can’t Improve Without Better Management Systems

Harvard Business Review

And yet, many of those ardent reformers are furiously running in place because they do not have the management system to support their goals. Worse yet, old-fashioned management-by-objective systems often work to actually undermine all of the good works by those frontline improvement teams.

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What Peter Drucker Knew About 2020

Harvard Business Review

Drucker urged executives to push decision-making and accountability all the way down through the organization as early as 1954, when he introduced the concept of Management by Objectives. Knowledge management Leadership Managing people' Embrace employee autonomy. Read the rest of the series here.

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Guest Blogger George L. Morrisey: Are You Ready for Strategic Planning?

leaderCommunicator

While each organization's strategic plan should be a direct reflection of the convictions and fore­sight of the CEO and the planning team, I have found it useful to separate the plan into three sections that are developed in reverse order. Get more leadership best practices by visiting The Grossman Group's CEO Ultimate Resource Center.

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What to Measure If You’re Mission Driven

Harvard Business Review

.” Drucker wrote a great deal about how managers should measure performance, but this particular phrase didn’t come from his pen. Instead, his measurement advice was linked to his belief in “managing by objectives,” and above all urged managers to “focus on results.” Is that good?

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Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch & Dinner!

Great Leadership By Dan

Our book, “ A Culture Of Discipline:The Art, Discipline, and Practice of Breakthrough Leadership” is the outcome of ten years of practice and experimentation on two key theories developed by two world renowned researchers: Peter Drucker and Igor Ansoff. Igor Ansoff is known as the father of strategic management.

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