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“You can never tell what’s around the corner”: Here’s how to nail succession planning

Chartered Management Institute

Advice: “You can never tell what’s around the corner”: Here’s how to nail succession planning Written by Annie Makoff-Clark Tuesday 09 January 2024 Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email Recruiting a successor is no easy task — who should take over, and when?

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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. Specific Stimulating Measurable Motivating Achievable Appropriate Realistic Relevant Time Timed.

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

leaderCommunicator

A pioneer in the process known as Management By Objectives (MBO), he wrote the first how-to book on MBO for managers in 1970. He is the author or co-author of 19 books, including the three-book series, Morrisey on Planning.

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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 More often ignored is the growing population of contingent workers, including independent contractors, statement-of-work-based labor, and freelancers who provide services to corporations. Insight Center.

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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. Eliminate exhortations for the work force; instead, focus on the system and morale. Eliminate work standard quotas for production. Substitute leadership methods for improvement. Avoid numerical goals. Educate with self-improvement programs.

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