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3 Valuable Insights Leaders Can Learn From Neuroscience

Tanveer Naseer

Management by objectives is a far more limited mental schema than management by aspiration. There is enormous potential for combining neuroscience theory with efforts to help companies improve the positive impact of their culture.

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Lead With Your Heart, Not Just Your Head

Harvard Business Review

As a manager, you may not be working on a fishing boat or in armed combat. Or have you been taught to manage by objectives and metrics to monitor performance, and that bonding with your team members will be seen as a distraction at best or weakness at worst? But you need to motivate your people to get things done.

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Hospitals Can’t Improve Without Better Management Systems

Harvard Business Review

And yet, many of those ardent reformers are furiously running in place because they do not have the management system to support their goals. Worse yet, old-fashioned management-by-objective systems often work to actually undermine all of the good works by those frontline improvement teams.

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Guest Blogger George L. Morrisey: Are You Ready for Strategic Planning?

leaderCommunicator

His background includes more than 20 years as a practicing manager and key specialist with several organizations in both the private and public sectors in addition to more than 35 years as a full time consultant. A pioneer in the process known as Management By Objectives (MBO), he wrote the first how-to book on MBO for managers in 1970.