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Managing Remote Employees: Lessons Ancient Rome and Today

Great Leadership By Dan

Social Media Manager. Telework Manager or Coordinator. Online Advertising Manager. Answer: They are staffed by employees that can do their work while their managers are in a different location. And if you’re a manager or aspiring manager, chances are at least one of them is going to work for you.

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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. Thus, as a manager or business leader, if the system has not yet been encountered, it most likely will be in the near future. Indicative of the system's growth, many of these implementations are less than six months old.

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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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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. SMART goal setting.

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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. Later, MBO evolved into strategic planning.

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How Overfocusing on Goals Can Hold Us Back

Harvard Business Review

When made to seek novelty, his robots developed surprising and creative solutions to problems they could not previously solve. 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).

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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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