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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. Keep them connected.

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

Harvard Business Review

Business culture: In the United States, for example, the culture often emphasizes individual performance, while in Japan, it stresses teamwork. Performance Metrics: Pay on revenues (timing determined locally) for individual (not team) performance; pay incentives rarely for management by objective (MBO) achievement (e.g.

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Where are you on the management scale of newbie to expert hacker?

Ask Atma

And the Fundaments of managing by objectives : Cascading of organizational goals and objectives, (For example, a top level goal of increasing sales by 20% over a defined period may require a bottom level goal of increasing marketing effectiveness or marketing coverage in order to reach the sales set.). Measurable. Achievable.