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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. Unfortunately, his ideas were ruined by management consultants who turned “MBO” into a bureaucratic mess.

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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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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. Both benefit from having a stronger, more direct relationship with each other.

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