MBO Operations System Technology 
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
Management by Objectives (MBO) became the height of corporate fashion in the late 1950s. This was the capitalist equivalent of the Communist system’s five-year plans. Later, MBO evolved into strategic planning. It restructured its operations in the Netherlands by reorganizing 3,500 employees into agile squads.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 24, 2016
Deming believed that we can improve worker performance only when we improve the entire system they work within. Eliminate exhortations for the work force; instead, focus on the system and morale. Eliminate MBO. The point of his red bead experiment is that we often get a false read on workers because we judge them too narrowly.
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