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

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The process of strategic planning may be reduced to that of just another paperwork exercise unless it is launched with a clear understanding on the part of those involved concerning: How much time is required? How many and what types of meetings? How much preparation effort is required? What are the roles of team members?

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

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. In this test, participants play the part of factory workers who are attempting to fit red beads into 50 indentations on a paddle. Eliminate MBO. Avoid numerical goals.

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