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Results vs. Process. Achieving Goals While Improving the Work

Mike Cardus

Originally came across this video here ‘ What Management by Objectives Does Wrong & Hoshin Kanri Does Right ’. Its applicability to management and teams is powerful. I’ve watched this video several times. Results without a process is luck. Process without results is waste.

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Write SMART objectives & Goals

Rapid BI

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. The post Write SMART objectives & Goals appeared first on RapidBi. SMART goal setting.

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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. Keep them connected.

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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. Of course, reprogramming people and organizations is no easy feat.

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Hospitals Can’t Improve Without Better Management Systems

Harvard Business Review

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.

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

leaderCommunicator

Key strategic areas, critical issues, long-term objectives, major actions, financial projections, pages 5-10. Each critical issue listed separately together with its completed analysis, long-term objectives, strategic action plans, and selected department plans. Executive Overview, pages 1-3. Mission, vision, strategy, page 4.

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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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