Remove MBO Remove Operations Remove Short-term Remove Technology
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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. Later, MBO evolved into strategic planning. In the face of relentless technological change, disruptive forces in industry after industry, global competition, and so on, planning seems like pointless wishful thinking.

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

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. He cogently argues that businesses destroy more value than they create when they focus on short-term results, traditional incentives, and performance rankings.

Deming 11