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Managing Remote Employees: Lessons Ancient Rome and Today

Great Leadership By Dan

Answer: They are staffed by employees that can do their work while their managers are in a different location. And if you’re a manager or aspiring manager, chances are at least one of them is going to work for you. Telecommuting, distributed teams, outsourcing, and virtual teams are not new. Team development.

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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. Consider just a few examples.

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

leaderCommunicator

What are the roles of team members? The following questions, addressed by plan­ning team members, both individually and as a group, may help determine the degree of readiness: Why do we want to undertake a strategic plan at this time? Team members need to reach a consensus in their answers to these questions before moving ahead.

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Planning Doesn’t Have to Be the Enemy of Agile

Harvard Business Review

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. Management by Objectives (MBO) became the height of corporate fashion in the late 1950s.

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There’s No One System for Paying Your Global Sales Force

Harvard Business Review

Develop Global Guidelines. For example, a medical device company created the following global guidelines for incentive plans for new business development salespeople. Provide wisdom, experience, and project team members who could help businesses execute the frameworks. Consider three approaches that can work.