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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 ).

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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.).

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Planning Doesn’t Have to Be the Enemy of Agile

Harvard Business Review

Planning has long been one of the cornerstones of management. Early in the twentieth century Henri Fayol identified the job of managers as to plan, organize, command, coordinate, and control. The capacity and willingness of managers to plan developed throughout the century. Jon Feingersh/Getty Images.

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Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch & Dinner!

Great Leadership By Dan

Our book, “ A Culture Of Discipline:The Art, Discipline, and Practice of Breakthrough Leadership” is the outcome of ten years of practice and experimentation on two key theories developed by two world renowned researchers: Peter Drucker and Igor Ansoff. Igor Ansoff is known as the father of strategic management.

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