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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. Thus, as a manager or business leader, if the system has not yet been encountered, it most likely will be in the near future.

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Managing Remote Employees: Lessons Ancient Rome and Today

Great Leadership By Dan

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

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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.

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The Freelance Economy Still Runs on Word of Mouth

Harvard Business Review

But we’re not quite there yet, according to a new survey conducted for MBO Partners, which provides back-office services to independent workers — which it dubs “solopreneurs.” We may well be entering a new age of work, in which tasks can be sliced into bite-sized chunks and allotted online to freelancers all over the planet.

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

Harvard Business Review

PwC has chosen to build its platform itself and has engineered it to work with other independent worker ecosystem service providers such as MBO Partners (an Emergent Research client), which is providing PwC with a compliance system for engaging and paying the independent worker community.

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How VC John Doerr Sets (and Achieves) Goals

Harvard Business Review

Many of them utilize a goal-setting system Doerr calls “OKR,” for “objectives” and “key results.” When I left Intel in 1980 to help others start companies and start one of my own, I took the slide deck that he had used to teach the objectives and results system — 30 or so slides.

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Where Are All the Self-Employed Workers?

Harvard Business Review

A survey conducted for the past three years on behalf of MBO Partners , a provider of support services for independent workers, counts temp workers, on-call workers, and those on fixed-term contracts as “independent workers.” Given that the actual research commissioned by MBO says that there are now about 17.7

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