Small-business owners and managers have a responsibility to lead their employees in the pursuit of company goals. To do that, they need to let employees know what they are expected to do and how they ...

Achieving business success is a goal of all company leaders. Management by objectives (MBO) is a plan that helps businesses improve their performance. It does so by mapping out a guide for both the ...

The idea of management by objectives (MBO), first outlined by Peter Drucker and then developed by George Odiorne, his student, was popular in the 1960s and 1970s. In his book “The Practice of ...

I recently finished reading a fairly gripping tale of the life of the FBI traitor Robert Hanson (This book). In it, the author mentions that Hanson was a knowledgeable 'sovietologist' (he worked in ...

A long-time project manager for EDS outlines a sensible way to evaluate project managers' performance using objective metrics that matter most to the business. Project managers are ultimately ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. You may have heard about objectives, goals and such, but what are OKRs? OKRs stand for ...