Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 28, 2012

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. Unfortunately, his ideas were ruined by management consultants who turned “MBO” into a bureaucratic mess. A shared purpose, goals, and value system.

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Management MBO Learning-by-Doing Micromanagement 243

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Then you would create a mechanism to reward the robot for moving toward that goal and to punish it for moving farther away, so that over time it finds its way out. It’s geographically as close as possible to its objective but it can’t get there. ” Most modern managers take this as a given.

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Goal MBO Objective Management by Objectives 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

Many of them utilize a goal-setting system Doerr calls “OKR,” for “objectives” and “key results.” Doerr stopped by HBR to talk about his passion for setting and reaching goals. I got to be a student of Andy Grove, one of the the greatest managers of his, or any other, era.

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Goal Objective Venture Capitalist MBO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

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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Agility Planning Fayol Strategic Planning 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

Deming believed that we can improve worker performance only when we improve the entire system they work within. And he believed that managers wrongly apply incentive pay plans, forced rankings, and all sorts of carrots and sticks to create the illusion of control without solving root performance problems. Eliminate MBO.

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