Bottom-up Management by Objectives MBO Operations 
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.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 24, 2016
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. On the job, people, teams, and divisions are ranked, reward for the top, punishment for the bottom.
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