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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. It restructured its operations in the Netherlands by reorganizing 3,500 employees into agile squads. The capacity and willingness of managers to plan developed throughout the century.

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Deming offered up 14 principles that stood in stark contrast to the sorts of practices he thought were eroding the performance of top corporations in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s. Eliminate MBO. On the job, people, teams, and divisions are ranked, reward for the top, punishment for the bottom. Avoid numerical goals.

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