Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Early in the twentieth century Henri Fayol identified the job of managers as to plan, organize, command, coordinate, and control. The capacity and willingness of managers to plan developed throughout the century. Management by Objectives (MBO) became the height of corporate fashion in the late 1950s.

Agility 15

Agility Planning Fayol MBO 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Performance Metrics: Pay on revenues (timing determined locally) for individual (not team) performance; pay incentives rarely for management by objective (MBO) achievement (e.g. Increased effectiveness and fewer errors through consistency in data collection and reporting, and the creation and use of operational best practices.

Globalization 8

Globalization System Incentives Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

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.

Deming 12

Deming Management Senge Taylor 12