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How VC John Doerr Sets (and Achieves) Goals

Harvard Business Review

I got to be a student of Andy Grove, one of the the greatest managers of his, or any other, era. Andy had created this system for goal setting that was deceptively simple, but also the polar opposite of the conventional management by objectives (MBO) systems, which tend to be top down, hierarchical, annual, and linked to compensation.

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What to Measure If You’re Mission Driven

Harvard Business Review

My favorite Peter Drucker misquotation is, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” ” Drucker wrote a great deal about how managers should measure performance, but this particular phrase didn’t come from his pen.

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Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch & Dinner!

Great Leadership By Dan

Igor Ansoff is known as the father of strategic management. He is most known for the concept of environmental turbulence; the contingent strategic success paradigm, a concept that has been validated by numerous research studies; and real-time strategic management. He has been described by peers as "the founder of modern management".

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