Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Management by Objectives (MBO) became the height of corporate fashion in the late 1950s. It seemed sensible, therefore, for executives to identify their objectives. They could then focus on managing in such a way that these objectives were achieved. Later, MBO evolved into strategic planning.

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Agility Planning Fayol Strategic Planning 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

Many of them utilize a goal-setting system Doerr calls “OKR,” for “objectives” and “key results.” Edited excerpts of that conversation follow: HBR: Why did you write this book? The objective is what I want to have accomplished. The objectives are typically longer lived.

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Goal Objective Venture Capitalist MBO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

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. Eliminate exhortations for the work force; instead, focus on the system and morale. Eliminate work standard quotas for production.

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Deming Management Senge Taylorism 9