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Your Company Needs Independent Workers

Harvard Business Review

How to Be a Company That Employees Love. The MBO Partners 2015 State of Independence workforce study found that 6.4 Independent workers allow them to quickly and efficiently scale staffing up and down to meet shifts in demand and changing business circumstances in an increasingly volatile and always-changing global economy.

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Eliminate MBO. Alternatively, learn the capabilities of processes and how to improve them. But what’s even more striking is that efficiency and performance naturally improves inside of these companies without the standard methods that more established firms pursue. Eliminate work standard quotas for production.

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