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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. When a business is purchased by the management team within the company by borrowing funds, this is referred to as a Management-Buy-out (MBO).

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The Freelance Economy Still Runs on Word of Mouth

Harvard Business Review

But we’re not quite there yet, according to a new survey conducted for MBO Partners, which provides back-office services to independent workers — which it dubs “solopreneurs.” We do see work moving more and more online, but it’s going to be a long time before that overtakes your personal network that you’ve built.

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Where Are All the Self-Employed Workers?

Harvard Business Review

A survey conducted for the past three years on behalf of MBO Partners , a provider of support services for independent workers, counts temp workers, on-call workers, and those on fixed-term contracts as “independent workers.” Given that the actual research commissioned by MBO says that there are now about 17.7

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How PwC and The Washington Post Are Finding and Hiring External Talent

Harvard Business Review

A key feature of PwC’s talent exchange is to develop and foster a long-term relationship between PwC and independent workers. The long-term nature of the Talent Exchange is a powerful benefit for both sides. They also receive project delivery scores after every assignment.

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

leaderCommunicator

This includes your statements of mission, vision, and strategy (preferably on the same page), plus your key strategic areas, critical issues, the long-term objectives related to each key strategic area and, where appropriate, major actions (not complete strategic action plans) required to reach your long-term objectives.

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Planning Doesn’t Have to Be the Enemy of Agile

Harvard Business Review

Planning has long been one of the cornerstones of management. Management by Objectives (MBO) became the height of corporate fashion in the late 1950s. Later, MBO evolved into strategic planning. Some are short-term, others stretch into an imagined future. Jon Feingersh/Getty Images.

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Gothenberg, Sweden, is a long way to travel from Boston for a breakthrough idea in management — especially one that is more than 40 years old. End the practice of awarding business on the basis of price tag alone; instead, try a long-term relationship based on established loyalty and trust. Eliminate MBO.

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