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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.

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How PwC and The Washington Post Are Finding and Hiring External Talent

Harvard Business Review

This online platform provides skilled independent professionals direct access to PwC teams seeking talent for their projects. A key feature of PwC’s talent exchange is to develop and foster a long-term relationship between PwC and independent workers. A good example is PwC’s recently announced Talent Exchange.

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The Freelance Economy Still Runs on Word of Mouth

Harvard Business Review

But we’re not quite there yet, according to a new survey conducted for MBO Partners, which provides back-office services to independent workers — which it dubs “solopreneurs.” Yeah, I was with Lotus Development for a long time, mostly overseas. Overall, there are now an estimated 17.9 million last year and 15.9

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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. systems and infrastructure) across countries and utilizing skilled people in lower cost labor markets. Consider three approaches that can work.

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Planning Doesn’t Have to Be the Enemy of Agile

Harvard Business Review

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. Later, MBO evolved into strategic planning. Corporations developed large corporate units dedicated to it. The world appeared predictable.

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