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Write SMART objectives & Goals

Rapid BI

How to write SMART Objectives and SMARTER objectives for business and personal development. SMARTER objectives form part of the MBO, Managing by objectives approach made popular by Drucker. SMARTER formatted objectives are of value in Performance Management as well as project management.

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Guest Blogger George L. Morrisey: Are You Ready for Strategic Planning?

leaderCommunicator

His background includes more than 20 years as a practicing manager and key specialist with several organizations in both the private and public sectors in addition to more than 35 years as a full time consultant. A pioneer in the process known as Management By Objectives (MBO), he wrote the first how-to book on MBO for managers in 1970.

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Eliminate MBO. Alternatively, learn the capabilities of processes and how to improve them. Management by objectives, quotas, incentive pay, business plans, put together separately, division by division, cause further loss, unknown and unknowable. Eliminate work standard quotas for production. Avoid numerical goals.

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