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Planning Doesn’t Have to Be the Enemy of Agile

Harvard Business Review

Management by Objectives (MBO) became the height of corporate fashion in the late 1950s. This was the capitalist equivalent of the Communist system’s five-year plans. Later, MBO evolved into strategic planning. It restructured its operations in the Netherlands by reorganizing 3,500 employees into agile squads.

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