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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. A growing number of organizations are achieving great financial success through the BSC framework, thereby solidifying the BSC a "here to stay" rather than just another passing fad.

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Write SMART objectives & Goals

Rapid BI

How to write SMART Objectives and SMARTER objectives for business and personal development. 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.

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Managing Remote Employees: Lessons Ancient Rome and Today

Great Leadership By Dan

Many traditional managers are accustomed to managing activities by observation and not necessarily by results. 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. Team development. texting, IM, or appointments only).

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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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Planning Doesn’t Have to Be the Enemy of Agile

Harvard Business Review

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. Management by Objectives (MBO) became the height of corporate fashion in the late 1950s.

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How Overfocusing on Goals Can Hold Us Back

Harvard Business Review

Testing objective-less challenges in many other AI contexts, Stanley got similar results. When made to seek novelty, his robots developed surprising and creative solutions to problems they could not previously solve. ” Most modern managers take this as a given. Consider just a few examples.

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There’s No One System for Paying Your Global Sales Force

Harvard Business Review

Develop Global Guidelines. For example, a medical device company created the following global guidelines for incentive plans for new business development salespeople. Consider three approaches that can work. for competencies or activities), with a maximum allowable payment of 20% of incentives.