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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

Institute on-the-job training. Eliminate MBO. Alternatively, learn the capabilities of processes and how to improve them. Teach and institute leadership to improve all job functions. Drive out fear; create trust. Strive to reduce intradepartmental conflicts. Eliminate work standard quotas for production. Avoid numerical goals.

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