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Is Goal-Setting Bad??
Hi,
As if our attack on "best practices" isn't enough to get us thrown out of most software conferences, let's also look at goal-setting.
Is goal-setting bad? Of course, the answer is "it depends on how you do it."
I found an excellent article documenting how goal-setting can be extremely damaging to a company (in this case, poor GM).
Along with the idea of best practices, goal-setting is embedded deeply into our corporate culture in North America. What do you think? Is there good goal-setting and bad goal-setting? Does it foster competition in an organization? Is that competition healthy or damaging?
Here's the article from the Boston Globe:
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/03/15/ready_a...
I also found this article from Harvard Business School. I like the title "Goals Gone Wild."
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-083.pdf
As if our attack on "best practices" isn't enough to get us thrown out of most software conferences, let's also look at goal-setting.
Is goal-setting bad? Of course, the answer is "it depends on how you do it."
I found an excellent article documenting how goal-setting can be extremely damaging to a company (in this case, poor GM).
Along with the idea of best practices, goal-setting is embedded deeply into our corporate culture in North America. What do you think? Is there good goal-setting and bad goal-setting? Does it foster competition in an organization? Is that competition healthy or damaging?
Here's the article from the Boston Globe:
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/03/15/ready_a...
I also found this article from Harvard Business School. I like the title "Goals Gone Wild."
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-083.pdf
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