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Planning a successful MBO?

Strategy Driven

An MBO or MBI can give you the opportunity to step up from senior manager to business owner. How do you plan a successful MBO? What is an MBO and why might a business go for a MBO. When a business is purchased by the management team within the company by borrowing funds, this is referred to as a Management-Buy-out (MBO).

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Seven Steps to Start a Consulting Business

Chart Your Course

According to MBO Partners, a support service for independent consultants, boomers are a fast growing sector of the independent workforce. In its 2012 Independent Workforce Index, MBO Partners estimates that boomers account for around a third of all independent consultants. Will they retire, work part-time or start new endeavors?

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

leaderCommunicator

This includes your statements of mission, vision, and strategy (preferably on the same page), plus your key strategic areas, critical issues, the long-term objectives related to each key strategic area and, where appropriate, major actions (not complete strategic action plans) required to reach your long-term objectives.

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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. Henry Mintzberg defined strategic planning as “a formalized system for codifying, elaborating and operationalizing the strategies which companies already have.”

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