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Managing Remote Employees: Lessons Ancient Rome and Today

Great Leadership By Dan

This post was recently published as a guest post on SmartBlog on Leadership : Question: What do these five “established” jobs: - Call Center Representative. Unfortunately, his ideas were ruined by management consultants who turned “MBO” into a bureaucratic mess. Team development. The Colosseum. ?This Salesperson. Truck Driver.

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

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Do we have the necessary resources, knowledge, skill, and attitudes to successfully develop a strategic plan within the desired time frame? The development of a strategic plan is a serious undertaking. A pioneer in the process known as Management By Objectives (MBO), he wrote the first how-to book on MBO for managers in 1970.