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Balanced Scorecard - The Next Big Thing?

Six Disciplines

Many corporate managers have been introduced to a corporate management system called the Balanced Scorecard. Indicative of the system's growth, many of these implementations are less than six months old. Thus, as a manager or business leader, if the system has not yet been encountered, it most likely will be in the near future.

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Managing Remote Employees: Lessons Ancient Rome and Today

Great Leadership By Dan

Unfortunately, his ideas were ruined by management consultants who turned “MBO” into a bureaucratic mess. A shared purpose, goals, and value system. Team development. Again, this is not a new concept - the management guru Peter Ducker wrote about it back in the 1950s in his book Management by Objectives.

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How Overfocusing on Goals Can Hold Us Back

Harvard Business Review

When made to seek novelty, his robots developed surprising and creative solutions to problems they could not previously solve. One of the most sacred texts in the business world is Peter Drucker’s classic, The Practice of Management , which introduced the concept of “ management by objectives ” (MBO).

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

Harvard Business Review

A key feature of PwC’s talent exchange is to develop and foster a long-term relationship between PwC and independent workers. Like PWC’s talent exchange, the Post developed its talent network in-house. The Washington Post is another good example of a company using a platform to manage external talent.

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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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Where Are All the Self-Employed Workers?

Harvard Business Review

A survey conducted for the past three years on behalf of MBO Partners , a provider of support services for independent workers, counts temp workers, on-call workers, and those on fixed-term contracts as “independent workers.” Given that the actual research commissioned by MBO says that there are now about 17.7

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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. This was the capitalist equivalent of the Communist system’s five-year plans. Later, MBO evolved into strategic planning.

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