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Write SMART objectives & Goals

Rapid BI

How to write SMART Objectives and SMARTER objectives for business and personal development. 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.

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Using Deming’s Ideas Today to Promote Trust and Meaningful Work

Deming Institute

Management by objectives, quotas, incentive pay, business plans, put together separately, division by division, cause further loss, unknown and unknowable. His focus was on how to continual improve organizations made up of people. On the job, people, teams, and divisions are ranked, reward for the top, punishment for the bottom.

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Peter Senge on the Creation of a Post-Industrial Theory and Practice of Education

Deming Institute

There is a real simple notion of system which is kind of the cornerstone of what I’ve learned about the subject of systemic change…and that is when we say the word the system, what we really are talking about, although we usually do not know how to talk about it very rigorously, is a pattern of interdependency that we enact. There is no system.

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Hospitals Can’t Improve Without Better Management Systems

Harvard Business Review

In all of the loud and necessary debates over how to reform health care in the United States before it bankrupts the country, there is one element that has been continually overlooked: the management systems employed by hospitals. This 20 th century system essentially has leadership establishing objectives for managers to achieve.

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Guest Blogger George L. Morrisey: Are You Ready for Strategic Planning?

leaderCommunicator

His background includes more than 20 years as a practicing manager and key specialist with several organizations in both the private and public sectors in addition to more than 35 years as a full time consultant. A pioneer in the process known as Management By Objectives (MBO), he wrote the first how-to book on MBO for managers in 1970.

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Explain Your New Strategy By Emphasizing What It Isn’t

Harvard Business Review

Psychologists have found that the same type of compare and contrast technique is also a superior method for teaching adults how to apply abstract business principles to new situations like complex negotiations. She gets it.

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Alternatively, learn the capabilities of processes and how to improve them. Management by objectives, quotas, incentive pay, business plans, put together separately, division by division, cause further loss, unknown and unknowable. Eliminate work standard quotas for production. Substitute leadership methods for improvement.

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