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Managing Remote Employees: Lessons Ancient Rome and Today

Great Leadership By Dan

This post was recently published as a guest post on SmartBlog on Leadership : Question: What do these five “established” jobs: - Call Center Representative. Unfortunately, his ideas were ruined by management consultants who turned “MBO” into a bureaucratic mess. A shared purpose, goals, and value system. The Colosseum. ?This

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Teach and institute leadership to improve all job functions. Substitute leadership methods for improvement. Eliminate MBO. Avoid numerical goals. All of this implies a more-progressive approach to leadership. Drive out fear; create trust. Strive to reduce intradepartmental conflicts.

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