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

Mike Cardus

This is a very honest post, about the struggle that I deal with in trying to make teams and leaders better. Bromides of – team excellence, Good-to-Great, Management By Objectives, etc… That we have all heard and wondered, what the fuck does that mean? There are also many cheerleaders and I agree with some of them.

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Favorites of 2011: Team Building, Leadership & Innovation Blog Articles

Mike Cardus

Here is the schedule it may change; 12/27/11 – Photos of Teams. 12/29/11 – Team Building & Leadership activity (simulation). Favorite Team Building & Leadership Blog Articles 2011. 5 Steps to Critical Thinking + Reflection in Team Development & Leadership. 12/30/11 – Blog article. 12/31/11 – NEW YEARS!

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Results vs. Process. Achieving Goals While Improving the Work

Mike Cardus

Originally came across this video here ‘ What Management by Objectives Does Wrong & Hoshin Kanri Does Right ’. Its applicability to management and teams is powerful. DEATH & STAGNATION – really nothing is happening and the people + teams are scrambling achieving frustration and confusion.

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Managing Remote Employees: Lessons Ancient Rome and Today

Great Leadership By Dan

Answer: They are staffed by employees that can do their work while their managers are in a different location. And if you’re a manager or aspiring manager, chances are at least one of them is going to work for you. Telecommuting, distributed teams, outsourcing, and virtual teams are not new. Team development.

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Great Quote: On System of Management by Deming

QAspire

On the job people, teams, and divisions are ranked, reward for the top, punishment for the bottom. Management by Objectives, quotas, incentive pay, business plans, put together separately, division by division, cause further loss, unknown and unknowable.

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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. They were not just “old school.”

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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. At the University of British Columbia, Elizabeth Dunn and her colleagues found that people report feeling happier after giving money to others than after spending it on themselves. Copyright ©2014 PwC. All rights reserved.