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Balanced Scorecard - The Next Big Thing?

Six Disciplines

Developed at the Harvard Business School by David Norton and Robert Kaplan in the early 1990s, the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) represents the newest and most prolific performance measurement system since Total Quality Management (TQM) and Management by Objectives (MBO).

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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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Managing Remote Employees: Lessons Ancient Rome and Today

Great Leadership By Dan

Many traditional managers are accustomed to managing activities by observation and not necessarily by results. Again, this is not a new concept - the management guru Peter Ducker wrote about it back in the 1950s in his book Management by Objectives. A shared purpose, goals, and value system.

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How Overfocusing on Goals Can Hold Us Back

Harvard Business Review

One of the most sacred texts in the business world is Peter Drucker’s classic, The Practice of Management , which introduced the concept of “ management by objectives ” (MBO). ” Most modern managers take this as a given.

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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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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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Planning Doesn’t Have to Be the Enemy of Agile

Harvard Business Review

Early in the twentieth century Henri Fayol identified the job of managers as to plan, organize, command, coordinate, and control. The capacity and willingness of managers to plan developed throughout the century. Management by Objectives (MBO) became the height of corporate fashion in the late 1950s.

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