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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? Carry out a talent pool analysis of the employees starting with the CEO and working to the Front-Line Staff. Get us no-where. Once you determine each persons capabilities.

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How VC John Doerr Sets (and Achieves) Goals

Harvard Business Review

I got to be a student of Andy Grove, one of the the greatest managers of his, or any other, era. Andy had created this system for goal setting that was deceptively simple, but also the polar opposite of the conventional management by objectives (MBO) systems, which tend to be top down, hierarchical, annual, and linked to compensation.

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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. Embrace employee autonomy. And yet there is ample evidence that most organizations remain paragons of command-and-control.

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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

He is most known for the concept of environmental turbulence; the contingent strategic success paradigm, a concept that has been validated by numerous research studies; and real-time strategic management. Peter Drucker invented the concept known as management by objectives and self-control.

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