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Great Quote: On System of Management by Deming

QAspire

Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. Management by Objectives, quotas, incentive pay, business plans, put together separately, division by division, cause further loss, unknown and unknowable. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.

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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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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? Changes in the Goals:Roles:Procedures and management system will improve the teams productivity and individual effectiveness. Get us no-where.

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How Overfocusing on Goals Can Hold Us Back

Harvard Business Review

Testing objective-less challenges in many other AI contexts, Stanley got similar results. When made to seek novelty, his robots developed surprising and creative solutions to problems they could not previously solve. ” Most modern managers take this as a given. ” Most modern managers take this as a given.

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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Organization as machine – this imagery from our industrial past continues to cast a long shadow over the way we think about management today. Managers still assume that stability is the normal state of affairs and change is the unusual state (a point I particularly challenge in The End of Competitive Advantage ). Townes, and Henry L.

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

Ask Atma

Three Levels of Management. As a starting place we can look at three general levels or grades of management. As a starting place we can look at three general levels or grades of management. Beginner’s Management [Newbie or Management 1.0]. Fundamentals of being a manager : They ask “what needs to be done?”.