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Managing Remote Employees: Lessons Ancient Rome and Today

Great Leadership By Dan

Somehow the Romans were able to manage remote employees without all of the methods written about when ISOE was published in 1982, as well as Skype, texting, social media, IPhones, Sharepoint, WebEx, and a host of other technologies. Unfortunately, his ideas were ruined by management consultants who turned “MBO” into a bureaucratic mess.

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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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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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Planning Doesn’t Have to Be the Enemy of Agile

Harvard Business Review

Management by Objectives (MBO) became the height of corporate fashion in the late 1950s. This was the capitalist equivalent of the Communist system’s five-year plans. Later, MBO evolved into strategic planning. The world appeared predictable. The future could be planned. Now, strategic planning has fallen out of favor.

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Deming believed that we can improve worker performance only when we improve the entire system they work within. Eliminate exhortations for the work force; instead, focus on the system and morale. Eliminate MBO. The point of his red bead experiment is that we often get a false read on workers because we judge them too narrowly.

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