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Great Quote: On System of Management by Deming

QAspire

Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. Management by Objectives, quotas, incentive pay, business plans, put together separately, division by division, cause further loss, unknown and unknowable. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.

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Balanced Scorecard - The Next Big Thing?

Six Disciplines

Many corporate managers have been introduced to a corporate management system called the Balanced Scorecard. Indicative of the system's growth, many of these implementations are less than six months old. According to studies, the BSC is being implemented in nearly two-thirds of North American larger corporations.

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“Sometimes I feel Like Team Building is Sweet Frosting on a Shit Cake”

Mike Cardus

Bromides of – team excellence, Good-to-Great, Management By Objectives, etc… That we have all heard and wondered, what the fuck does that mean? Systems-Drive-Behavior if you are seeing outcomes that you don’t want then we must examine the system that created that behavior. Get us no-where. How do we Fix This?

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Peter Senge on the Creation of a Post-Industrial Theory and Practice of Education

Deming Institute

The system is out there…. What can we do…working against this massive thing called the system. No one can ever show you the system…can you show it to me? 20 to 25 years of efforts to transform the systemic nature of business operations…. Feel the enormous forces pulling things back to where they used to be. Gold stars.

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Management Styles

Strategy Driven

Management by Objectives came into vogue in 1965 and was the prevailing leadership style until 1990. Other important components of business (training, marketing, research, team building and productivity) were all accomplished according to goals, objectives and tactics. In this era, business started embracing formal planning.

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Managing Remote Employees: Lessons Ancient Rome and Today

Great Leadership By Dan

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. Unfortunately, his ideas were ruined by management consultants who turned “MBO” into a bureaucratic mess. A shared purpose, goals, and value system.

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3 Valuable Insights Leaders Can Learn From Neuroscience

Tanveer Naseer

Studies show that the brain’s reward system is directly activated by helping others. Management by objectives is a far more limited mental schema than management by aspiration. Finally, stressing the “why” to employees helps companies deploy the cognitive power of altruism.