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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. Social Media Manager. Telework Manager or Coordinator. Online Advertising Manager. . Telework Manager or Coordinator. Online Advertising Manager.

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How VC John Doerr Sets (and Achieves) Goals

Harvard Business Review

I got to be a student of Andy Grove, one of the the greatest managers of his, or any other, era. Andy had created this system for goal setting that was deceptively simple, but also the polar opposite of the conventional management by objectives (MBO) systems, which tend to be top down, hierarchical, annual, and linked to compensation.

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Edwards Deming : the former an industrialist who equated machines and human beings (both to be managed for maximum output), the latter a humanist who saw the individual as internally motivated to do good, meaningful work. Eliminate MBO. Alternatively, learn the capabilities of processes and how to improve them.

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