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Read in this blog post how to choose the right organizational structure for your team.

The decision to bring in the first manager into your growing company is not easy. This article lays out a framework to follow when making that decision.

OKR vs KPI: Two powerful management tools. One gives you strategic direction, the other transparency about your performance on your way. Read in this blog post what OKRs and KPIs are and how you use them for your business.

Standard Operating Procedures are critical for continuous improvement and onboarding of new employees. Read all about writing great SOPs here, including a free template download.

While you scale, there’s a great risk that your quality deteriorates. Read in this blog post how to prevent this.

Meetings get a bad rep, but they are a critical tool while you scale your company. Read here which meetings you need during growth!

While scaling your company might sound awesome, it’s hard to figure out where to start. Read in this blog post how to start and what things to consider when you start scaling.

You have to delegate work to scale your company. But effective delegating is one of the hardest things to do. This blog post lays out the five dimensions of delegating effectively: Time, task, handover, accountability and people.

When we look at scaling an operations, we often look at the things that are necessary: A clear mission, great communication, the right people, processes, tools and financials. But often enough, the things we have to stop doing are equally important to scaling. Read about it here.

Standard Operating Procedures are important for growing and scaling a company, but they alone will not change the behaviour of your team. You need to actively engage in change management. This blog post explains how.

The article highlights the importance of manual work and human employees in the rapidly growing world of automation.

Transparency is the basis for good business decisions. Read here how to increase the transparency of your operations.

This blog post breaks down the design of an employee reward program into three steps using a model called Expectancy Theory.

This blog post argues that in times of crisis, it’s relationships to vendors and customers that can make or break a business.

In lean methodology, a Gemba walk means to visit the actual location where work is being performed to identify process flaws and wasteful behaviour. Learn how to use the Gemba process when your team is all remote.

This post examines how to set priorities for your team by using structure.

This blog post describes seven techniques that you can use striving for mistake-proof management. It applies the Japanese quality philosophy of Poka-Yoke to your work as a manager.

Choosing the right medium of communication to convey your message is crucial in business. This blog post talks about how to choose the right medium using the concept of Media Richness. And about what happens if you don’t.

This post is the first post of the Good Management Blog and explains what the blog is about. It mainly covers operations and organizational behavior and aims to provide tools and techniques for good management.