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

MARCH 17, 2016

First, you would probably define the robot’s objective: Find the exit of the maze. 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. ” Most modern managers take this as a given. Your robot would be stuck.

Goal 8

Goal MBO Objective Management by Objectives 8

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 14

Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

And the Fundaments of managing by objectives : Cascading of organizational goals and objectives, (For example, a top level goal of increasing sales by 20% over a defined period may require a bottom level goal of increasing marketing effectiveness or marketing coverage in order to reach the sales set.).

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Management CRM Objective Human Resources 40

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

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. It seemed sensible, therefore, for executives to identify their objectives. The world appeared predictable. The future could be planned.

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Agility Planning Fayol Strategic Planning 15

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 Maturity 19

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

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

The goal was to optimize the outputs that could be generated from a specific set of inputs. Statistical and mathematical insights were imported (often from military uses) forming the basis of the field that would subsequently be known as operations management. Townes, and Henry L.

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Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

Avoid numerical goals. Management by objectives, quotas, incentive pay, business plans, put together separately, division by division, cause further loss, unknown and unknowable. Eliminate exhortations for the work force; instead, focus on the system and morale. Eliminate work standard quotas for production. Eliminate MBO.

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Deming Management Senge Taylorism 11