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Managing Remote Employees: Lessons Ancient Rome and Today

Great Leadership By Dan

Social Media Manager. Telework Manager or Coordinator. Online Advertising Manager. Answer: They are staffed by employees that can do their work while their managers are in a different location. And if you’re a manager or aspiring manager, chances are at least one of them is going to work for you.

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Write SMART objectives & Goals

Rapid BI

SMARTER objectives form part of the MBO, Managing by objectives approach made popular by Drucker. SMARTER formatted objectives are of value in Performance Management as well as project management. SMART goal setting. The post Write SMART objectives & Goals appeared first on RapidBi.

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How Overfocusing on Goals Can Hold Us Back

Harvard Business Review

Then you would create a mechanism to reward the robot for moving toward that goal and to punish it for moving farther away, so that over time it finds its way out. And it won’t want to turn around because that would mean moving away from the goal and getting punished. ” Most modern managers take this as a given.

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How VC John Doerr Sets (and Achieves) Goals

Harvard Business Review

Many of them utilize a goal-setting system Doerr calls “OKR,” for “objectives” and “key results.” Doerr stopped by HBR to talk about his passion for setting and reaching goals. I got to be a student of Andy Grove, one of the the greatest managers of his, or any other, era. Commitment is third.

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Planning Doesn’t Have to Be the Enemy of Agile

Harvard Business Review

Planning has long been one of the cornerstones of management. Early in the twentieth century Henri Fayol identified the job of managers as to plan, organize, command, coordinate, and control. The capacity and willingness of managers to plan developed throughout the century. Later, MBO evolved into strategic planning.

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Gothenberg, Sweden, is a long way to travel from Boston for a breakthrough idea in management — especially one that is more than 40 years old. Berwick’s talk spanned a pantheon of management thinkers to show the audience just how far we have come from Taylor to Deming in the 20th century. Eliminate MBO.

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