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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. Some are short-term, others stretch into an imagined future. Early in the twentieth century Henri Fayol identified the job of managers as to plan, organize, command, coordinate, and control.

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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.

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