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Managing Remote Employees: Lessons Ancient Rome and Today

Great Leadership By Dan

Telecommuting, distributed teams, outsourcing, and virtual teams are not new. 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. Unfortunately, his ideas were ruined by management consultants who turned “MBO” into a bureaucratic mess.

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How Overfocusing on Goals Can Hold Us Back

Harvard Business Review

First, you would probably define the robot’s objective: Find the exit of the maze. It’s geographically as close as possible to its objective but it can’t get there. Testing objective-less challenges in many other AI contexts, Stanley got similar results. ” Most modern managers take this as a given.

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How VC John Doerr Sets (and Achieves) Goals

Harvard Business Review

Many of them utilize a goal-setting system Doerr calls “OKR,” for “objectives” and “key results.” When I left Intel in 1980 to help others start companies and start one of my own, I took the slide deck that he had used to teach the objectives and results system — 30 or so slides.

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

leaderCommunicator

What are the roles of team members? The following questions, addressed by plan­ning team members, both individually and as a group, may help determine the degree of readiness: Why do we want to undertake a strategic plan at this time? Team members need to reach a consensus in their answers to these questions before moving ahead.

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Planning Doesn’t Have to Be the Enemy of Agile

Harvard Business Review

Management by Objectives (MBO) became the height of corporate fashion in the late 1950s. It seemed sensible, therefore, for executives to identify their objectives. They could then focus on managing in such a way that these objectives were achieved. Later, MBO evolved into strategic planning.

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Eliminate MBO. On the job, people, teams, and divisions are ranked, reward for the top, punishment for the bottom. 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.

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There’s No One System for Paying Your Global Sales Force

Harvard Business Review

Performance Metrics: Pay on revenues (timing determined locally) for individual (not team) performance; pay incentives rarely for management by objective (MBO) achievement (e.g. Provide wisdom, experience, and project team members who could help businesses execute the frameworks.