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Planning Doesn’t Have to Be the Enemy of Agile

Harvard Business Review

Early in the twentieth century Henri Fayol identified the job of managers as to plan, organize, command, coordinate, and control. The capacity and willingness of managers to plan developed throughout the century. Management by Objectives (MBO) became the height of corporate fashion in the late 1950s.

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There’s No One System for Paying Your Global Sales Force

Harvard Business Review

One of the big challenges for the people leading global sales organizations is figuring out the right way to set pay for for salespeople who work in vastly different countries and markets. Each country has its own market dynamics, business culture, laws, and availability of data for measuring performance.