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Managing Remote Employees: Lessons Ancient Rome and Today

Great Leadership By Dan

Social Media Manager. Telework Manager or Coordinator. Online Advertising Manager. 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.

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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. Thus, as a manager or business leader, if the system has not yet been encountered, it most likely will be in the near future. Indicative of the system's growth, many of these implementations are less than six months old.

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Write SMART objectives & Goals

Rapid BI

SMARTER objectives form part of the MBO, Managing by objectives approach made popular by Drucker. SMARTER formatted objectives are of value in Performance Management as well as project management. The post Write SMART objectives & Goals appeared first on RapidBi. SMART goal setting.

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How Overfocusing on Goals Can Hold Us Back

Harvard Business Review

One of the most sacred texts in the business world is Peter Drucker’s classic, The Practice of Management , which introduced the concept of “ management by objectives ” (MBO). ” Most modern managers take this as a given. ” Most modern managers take this as a given.

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

leaderCommunicator

Like other management processes, strat­egic planning must be organized, communicated, and implemented systemati­cally. GEORGE MORRISEY, CSP, CPAE is one of the top authors, speakers, seminar leaders and consultants in the field of management and recently retired at the age of 85. What Does a Strategic Plan Look Like?

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Planning Doesn’t Have to Be the Enemy of Agile

Harvard Business Review

Planning has long been one of the cornerstones of management. Early in the twentieth century Henri Fayol identified the job of managers as to plan, organize, command, coordinate, and control. The capacity and willingness of managers to plan developed throughout the century. Later, MBO evolved into strategic planning.

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