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Managing Remote Employees: Lessons Ancient Rome and Today

Great Leadership By Dan

This post was recently published as a guest post on SmartBlog on Leadership : Question: What do these five “established” jobs: - Call Center Representative. Unfortunately, his ideas were ruined by management consultants who turned “MBO” into a bureaucratic mess. A shared purpose, goals, and value system. The Colosseum. ?This

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Deming believed that we can improve worker performance only when we improve the entire system they work within. Teach and institute leadership to improve all job functions. Eliminate exhortations for the work force; instead, focus on the system and morale. Substitute leadership methods for improvement. Eliminate MBO.

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