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Planning Doesn’t Have to Be the Enemy of Agile

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

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

JUNE 24, 2016

Eliminate MBO. It may be cliché to say that technology is changing our businesses today at a rapid pace, but that doesn’t mean it’s not true. Eliminate exhortations for the work force; instead, focus on the system and morale. Eliminate work standard quotas for production. Substitute leadership methods for improvement.

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