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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Eliminate MBO. Management by objectives, quotas, incentive pay, business plans, put together separately, division by division, cause further loss, unknown and unknowable. Eliminate exhortations for the work force; instead, focus on the system and morale. Eliminate work standard quotas for production. Avoid numerical goals.

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