Chart Your Course

JULY 29, 2013

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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Drilling down further, according to MBO Partners' State of Independence in America report , there is a rapidly growing subset of "independents" in the U.S., which MBO defines as an individual working 15+ hours per week whether as a freelancer, contractor, or owner of a micro-business. Stripping out the c.

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MBO Learning Curve Christensen Trends 14

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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Agility Planning Fayol Strategic Planning 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

But we’re not quite there yet, according to a new survey conducted for MBO Partners, which provides back-office services to independent workers — which it dubs “solopreneurs.” You came into this from the tech industry? Overall, there are now an estimated 17.9 million estimate, derived from an online poll of 2,017 people, is up from 17.7

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MBO Survey Human Resources Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

A survey conducted for the past three years on behalf of MBO Partners , a provider of support services for independent workers, counts temp workers, on-call workers, and those on fixed-term contracts as “independent workers.” Given that the actual research commissioned by MBO says that there are now about 17.7

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MBO Survey Human Resources Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

Adapt to the new philosophy of the day; industries and economics are always changing. Eliminate MBO. The list might seem almost quaint today, but it’s worth recounting: Create and communicate to all employees a statement of the aims and purposes of the company. Build quality into a product throughout production.

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Deming Management Senge Taylorism 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

The MBO Partners 2015 State of Independence workforce study found that 6.4 Not only is this group large—by way of comparison, this is substantially more than the roughly 4 million Americans who work in the automotive industry, including those working in car dealerships and automotive parts retailing—it’s also growing.

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