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Managing Remote Employees: Lessons Ancient Rome and Today

Great Leadership By Dan

Many traditional managers are accustomed to managing activities by observation and not necessarily by results. Again, this is not a new concept - the management guru Peter Ducker wrote about it back in the 1950s in his book Management by Objectives. A shared purpose, goals, and value system. Hire great employees.

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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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