Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

And shortly thereafter (and not long before he died in 2005), Drucker declared that increasing the productivity of knowledge workers was “the most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century.”. Every organization will have to learn to innovate” on a constant basis, Drucker wrote. Embrace employee autonomy.

Drucker 14

Drucker Survey Learning-by-Doing Rogers 14

Six Disciplines

AUGUST 22, 2014

He summarized his ideas in these Fourteen Points of Quality Management : Create constancy of purpose towards improvement. You don’t inspect quality into products and services - you design it in. Non-meaningful slogans are counter-productive substitute for real management. Eliminate management by objectives.

Deming 95

Deming Quality Management Short-term 95

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Only glimmers of what was to come showed up in the work of thinkers such as Adam Smith, with his insight that the division of labor would increase productivity. Along with the new means of production, organizations gained scale. Knowledge began accumulating about what worked in organizational management.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Drucker P&L McGregor 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

And yet, many of those ardent reformers are furiously running in place because they do not have the management system to support their goals. Worse yet, old-fashioned management-by-objective systems often work to actually undermine all of the good works by those frontline improvement teams.

System 8

System Health Care Management COO 8

Six Disciplines

MARCH 21, 2011

He summarized his ideas in these Fourteen Points of Quality Management : Create constancy of purpose towards improvement. You don’t inspect quality into products and services - you design it in. Non-meaningful slogans are counter-productive substitute for real management. Eliminate management by objectives.

Deming 108

Deming Quality Management Short-term 108

Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

They ran productive meetings. And the Fundaments of managing by objectives : Cascading of organizational goals and objectives, (For example, a top level goal of increasing sales by 20% over a defined period may require a bottom level goal of increasing marketing effectiveness or marketing coverage in order to reach the sales set.).

Management 40

Management CRM Objective Human Resources 40

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

Build quality into a product throughout production. Work to constantly improve quality and productivity. Eliminate work standard quotas for production. Management by objectives, quotas, incentive pay, business plans, put together separately, division by division, cause further loss, unknown and unknowable.

Deming 11

Deming Management Senge Taylorism 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

The problem is that most widely used planning processes like management by objectives and balanced scorecards overlook the contrast piece of the compare-and-contrast equation. They do a fine job of requiring leaders to spell out what the strategic objectives are , but they rarely require leaders to get clear about what they are not.

Strategy 8

Strategy Sull Balanced Scorecard Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

.” Drucker wrote a great deal about how managers should measure performance, but this particular phrase didn’t come from his pen. Instead, his measurement advice was linked to his belief in “managing by objectives,” and above all urged managers to “focus on results.”

Drucker 8

Drucker Objective Self-aware Rate of Return 8