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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. The future could be planned.

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How Overfocusing on Goals Can Hold Us Back

Harvard Business Review

Stanley and Joel Lehman present their research in their new book, Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective , and argue that it has serious implications for humans as well. ” Most modern managers take this as a given. ” Most modern managers take this as a given.

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Gothenberg, Sweden, is a long way to travel from Boston for a breakthrough idea in management — especially one that is more than 40 years old. Berwick’s talk spanned a pantheon of management thinkers to show the audience just how far we have come from Taylor to Deming in the 20th century. Eliminate MBO.

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Independent Work May Be Inevitable

Harvard Business Review

Because of my Institutional Investor ranking, and advances in technology that made virtual co-location possible, I was able to persuade Merrill Lynch to let me work out of my home in Boston. which MBO defines as an individual working 15+ hours per week whether as a freelancer, contractor, or owner of a micro-business.

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How PwC and The Washington Post Are Finding and Hiring External Talent

Harvard Business Review

According to Deloitte’s 2016 Global Human Capital Trends study , 51% of global executives surveyed said their organizations plan to increase or significantly increase the use of contingent workers in the next three to five years; only 16% expect a decrease.

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