Agility Follow-up MBO 
Harvard Business Review
MAY 4, 2018
Edited excerpts of that conversation follow: HBR: Why did you write this book? Andy had created this system for goal setting that was deceptively simple, but also the polar opposite of the conventional management by objectives (MBO) systems, which tend to be top down, hierarchical, annual, and linked to compensation.
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. Why engage in a slow, painful planning exercise when you’re not even going to follow the plan? But if planning and agility are both necessary, organizations have to make them work.
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