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Planning a successful MBO?

Strategy Driven

An MBO or MBI can give you the opportunity to step up from senior manager to business owner. How do you plan a successful MBO? What is an MBO and why might a business go for a MBO. When a business is purchased by the management team within the company by borrowing funds, this is referred to as a Management-Buy-out (MBO).

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Planning Doesn’t Have to Be the Enemy of Agile

Harvard Business Review

Management by Objectives (MBO) became the height of corporate fashion in the late 1950s. Later, MBO evolved into strategic planning. Consider the Dutch financial services firm ING Bank. ING Bank revisited its process and introduced routine meetings and formats to create alignment between and within tribes.

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