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Favorites of 2011: Team Building, Leadership & Innovation Blog Articles

Mike Cardus

12/29/11 – Team Building & Leadership activity (simulation). Favorite Team Building & Leadership Blog Articles 2011. When You Die, How will your leadership be remembered? What stood out about my fathers leadership was the small things he did for people. __. 12/28/11 – Images used in presentations & Articles.

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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. Insight Center.

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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

By the early 1900’s, the term “management” was in wide use, and Adam Smith’s ideas came into their own. Gantt – developed theories that emphasized efficiency, lack of variation, consistency of production, and predictability. Peter Drucker, one of the first management specialists to achieve guru status, was representative of this era.

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

leaderCommunicator

Do we have the necessary resources, knowledge, skill, and attitudes to successfully develop a strategic plan within the desired time frame? Like other management processes, strat­egic planning must be organized, communicated, and implemented systemati­cally. The development of a strategic plan is a serious undertaking.

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Where are you on the management scale of newbie to expert hacker?

Ask Atma

They develop action plans. 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.).