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Employee Engagement by Exhortation

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Change Management Leadership Development [link] The underlying belief of exhortation is that people simply are not giving it their all, and so management’s job is to entice and encourage people to do a better job than they previously have. Management by objectives. Exhortation. Exhortation.

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Managing Remote Employees: Lessons Ancient Rome and Today

Great Leadership By Dan

This post was recently published as a guest post on SmartBlog on Leadership : Question: What do these five “established” jobs: - Call Center Representative. Social Media Manager. Telework Manager or Coordinator. Online Advertising Manager. Team development. The Colosseum. ?This Salesperson. Truck Driver.

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Great Quote: On System of Management by Deming

QAspire

Management by Objectives, quotas, incentive pay, business plans, put together separately, division by division, cause further loss, unknown and unknowable. The forces of destruction begin with toddlers — a prize for the best Halloween costume, grades in school, gold stars — and on up through the university.

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

Mike Cardus

Bromides of – team excellence, Good-to-Great, Management By Objectives, etc… That we have all heard and wondered, what the fuck does that mean? The more I read and study and apply my trade of Team Building & Leadership the more I see the good, the bad and the ugly. Get us no-where. That statement needs some unpacking.

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

leaderCommunicator

Do we have the necessary resources, knowledge, skill, and attitudes to successfully develop a strategic plan within the desired time frame? Like other management processes, strat­egic planning must be organized, communicated, and implemented systemati­cally. The development of a strategic plan is a serious undertaking.

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Management Styles

Strategy Driven

As a reaction to industrial reforms and the strength of unions, a Hard Nosed style of leadership was prominent from 1910-1939, management’s attempt to take stronger hands, recapture some of the Captain of Industry style and build solidity into an economy plagued by the Depression. They were not just “old school.”

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The Big Picture of Business – Corporate Cultures Reflect Business Progress and Growth.

Strategy Driven

As a reaction to industrial reforms and the strength of unions, a Hard Nosed style of leadership was prominent from 1910-1939, management’s attempt to take stronger hands, recapture some of the Captain of Industry style and build solidity into an economy plagued by the Depression. They were not just “old school.”