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Favorites of 2011: Team Building, Leadership & Innovation Blog Articles

Mike Cardus

Here is the schedule it may change; 12/27/11 – Photos of Teams. 12/29/11 – Team Building & Leadership activity (simulation). Favorite Team Building & Leadership Blog Articles 2011. 5 Steps to Critical Thinking + Reflection in Team Development & Leadership. 12/30/11 – Blog article. 12/31/11 – NEW YEARS!

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Results vs. Process. Achieving Goals While Improving the Work

Mike Cardus

Originally came across this video here ‘ What Management by Objectives Does Wrong & Hoshin Kanri Does Right ’. Its applicability to management and teams is powerful. DEATH & STAGNATION – really nothing is happening and the people + teams are scrambling achieving frustration and confusion.

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“Sometimes I feel Like Team Building is Sweet Frosting on a Shit Cake”

Mike Cardus

This is a very honest post, about the struggle that I deal with in trying to make teams and leaders better. Bromides of – team excellence, Good-to-Great, Management By Objectives, etc… That we have all heard and wondered, what the fuck does that mean? There are also many cheerleaders and I agree with some of them.

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Great Quote: On System of Management by Deming

QAspire

On the job people, teams, and divisions are ranked, reward for the top, punishment for the bottom. Management by Objectives, quotas, incentive pay, business plans, put together separately, division by division, cause further loss, unknown and unknowable. At one point, this focus on numbers becomes a chronic obsession.

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3 Valuable Insights Leaders Can Learn From Neuroscience

Tanveer Naseer

Neuroscientists such as Matthew Lieberman of the University of California at Los Angeles have also shown that when the neural circuits for being reactive drive behavior, some other neural circuits become less active—those associated with executive thinking, that is, controlling oneself, paying attention, innovating, planning, and problem solving.

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Where are you on the management scale of newbie to expert hacker?

Ask Atma

And the Fundaments of managing by objectives : Cascading of organizational goals and objectives, (For example, a top level goal of increasing sales by 20% over a defined period may require a bottom level goal of increasing marketing effectiveness or marketing coverage in order to reach the sales set.). employee management.

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Explain Your New Strategy By Emphasizing What It Isn’t

Harvard Business Review

Isn’t that exactly what a strategy should do — help teams and leaders decide the right thing to do in the face of new threats and opportunities? The problem is that most widely used planning processes like management by objectives and balanced scorecards overlook the contrast piece of the compare-and-contrast equation.