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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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1 in 2 Independent Consultants are Women [Infographic]

Women on Business

A new study from MBO Partners reports that 77% these women are satisfied and 74% plan on remaining in independent work. MBO Partners released an infographic that highlights all of the key findings about women independent consultants from the survey, which you can see below (click the image to view it at full size).

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2013 Independent Workforce Predictions [Infographic]

Women on Business

In a new infographic, MBO Partners shares five predictions for the independent workforce in 2013. Furthermore, Gene Zaino, CEO of MBO Partners, explains, “Professionals will use the independent work path to change, extend and grow their careers.

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Managing Remote Employees: Lessons Ancient Rome and Today

Great Leadership By Dan

Unfortunately, his ideas were ruined by management consultants who turned “MBO” into a bureaucratic mess. Again, this is not a new concept - the management guru Peter Ducker wrote about it back in the 1950s in his book Management by Objectives. A shared purpose, goals, and value system.

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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

A pioneer in the process known as Management By Objectives (MBO), he wrote the first how-to book on MBO for managers in 1970. He is the author or co-author of 19 books, including the three-book series, Morrisey on Planning.

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Balanced Scorecard - The Next Big Thing?

Six Disciplines

Developed at the Harvard Business School by David Norton and Robert Kaplan in the early 1990s, the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) represents the newest and most prolific performance measurement system since Total Quality Management (TQM) and Management by Objectives (MBO).