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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Eliminate MBO. Management by objectives, quotas, incentive pay, business plans, put together separately, division by division, cause further loss, unknown and unknowable. Moreover, these companies almost appear to be for the common good, and the management appears to instinctively follow Deming’s philosophy.

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