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Managing Remote Employees: Lessons Ancient Rome and Today

Great Leadership By Dan

Somehow the Romans were able to manage remote employees without all of the methods written about when ISOE was published in 1982, as well as Skype, texting, social media, IPhones, Sharepoint, WebEx, and a host of other technologies. Team development. Technology. Here are 10 timeless tips: 1. Agree on boundaries.

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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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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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