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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. Generally, MBOs are only partially financed with private assets by the management. How is an MBO funded?

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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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