Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2012

Let's dispense, once and for all, with the managerial absurdity known as "stretch goals." While it's true that renowned psychologists Edwin Locke and Gary Latham described goal setting as "the most effective managerial tool available," it's also true that no less a thinker than W.E. Stretch goals can be terribly demotivating.

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Goal Metrics Deming Banking 15

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

OCTOBER 21, 2015

And yet, many of those ardent reformers are furiously running in place because they do not have the management system to support their goals. Worse yet, old-fashioned management-by-objective systems often work to actually undermine all of the good works by those frontline improvement teams. Insight Center.

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System Health Care Management COO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

As a manager, you may not be working on a fishing boat or in armed combat. Or have you been taught to manage by objectives and metrics to monitor performance, and that bonding with your team members will be seen as a distraction at best or weakness at worst? But you need to motivate your people to get things done.

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Bond Resistance Management by Objectives Objective 18

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

.” Drucker wrote a great deal about how managers should measure performance, but this particular phrase didn’t come from his pen. Instead, his measurement advice was linked to his belief in “managing by objectives,” and above all urged managers to “focus on results.”

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Drucker Objective Self-aware Rate of Return 8