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Results vs. Process. Achieving Goals While Improving the Work

Mike Cardus

Originally came across this video here ‘ What Management by Objectives Does Wrong & Hoshin Kanri Does Right ’. Its applicability to management and teams is powerful. The need to have people fall in love with the process of working to achieve goals as opposed to the goal itself will allow quick change and more innovation.

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Great Quote: On System of Management by Deming

QAspire

Management by Objectives, quotas, incentive pay, business plans, put together separately, division by division, cause further loss, unknown and unknowable. Organization starts being driven by numbers alone and the human aspects of work (respect for people, intrinsic motivation, creativity, innovation etc.)

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

Mike Cardus

5 Steps to Critical Thinking + Reflection in Team Development & Leadership. When you are presented with a claim, piece of evidence, a process, organizational system really anything that YOU as a manager and a person who makes decisions at work has to explore + think about and decide. 10 Sins of The Facilitator. Get us no-where.

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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 guess-work of how many managerial layers to have causes dis-trust and halts any innovation within the organization. Get us no-where.

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How Overfocusing on Goals Can Hold Us Back

Harvard Business Review

First, you would probably define the robot’s objective: Find the exit of the maze. It’s geographically as close as possible to its objective but it can’t get there. Testing objective-less challenges in many other AI contexts, Stanley got similar results. ” Most modern managers take this as a given.

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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Short-term thinking has been charged with no less than a chronic decline in innovation capability by Clayton Christensen who termed it “the Capitalist’s Dilemma.” ) Corporations continue to focus too narrowly on shareholders , with terrible consequences – even at great companies like IBM. Townes, and Henry L.

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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.).