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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. Later, MBO evolved into strategic planning. It restructured its operations in the Netherlands by reorganizing 3,500 employees into agile squads. The capacity and willingness of managers to plan developed throughout the century.

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