22 Posts Found

The strategy, purpose, and values discussions—what Kevin Sharer, the former CEO of Amgen, calls a company’s “social architecture”—have often felt like separate exercises, but they now need to work in concert. “If you don’t have a social architecture that’s solid, well-accepted, and can be operationalized against the most important decisions you make, that’s leadership’s fault,” said Sharer.

Content: Quotation | Authors: Adam Bryant, Kevin Sharer | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Decision Making, Goals, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Strategy, Values

Goals are great — as long as you have thought in advance about what would make it so that you wouldn’t pursue that goal anymore.

Content: Quotation | Author: Annie Duke | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Goals, Management

Great goals go beyond SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant to your interests, and time-bound). They have specific milestones that help provide a sense of progress, which is crucial to happiness at work. If you start off with well-defined goals that will allow you to realize success and that have multiple steps toward an endpoint, you are much more likely to enjoy working toward them.

Content: Quotation | Author: Scott Crabtree | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Goals, Management, Organizational Behavior, Productivity / Work Tips, Success / Failure

To be effective, goals and metrics must be embedded either in a deep understanding of cause and effect or in a thoroughgoing learning process that leads to that understanding.

Content: Quotation | Author: David K. Hurst | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Goals, Measurement

I was a longtime aficionado of SMART goal setting when the “M” stood for “Measurable.” However, over time, I found that a specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound goal simply was not SMART enough. I changed the “M” to “Motivating” and moved measurable into the “S” (Specific). Adding another dimension to make my goals more emotionally compelling worked for me. It seemed to work for … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Susan Fowler | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Achievement, Goals, Measurement

Corporate executives often conflate strategy with vision, mission, purpose, plans, or goals. Although these elements may help to focus, inspire, mobilize, and challenge an organization, they are not substitutes for a logical, articulated strategy, and they often lead to helter-skelter corporate development.

Content: Quotation | Author: Ken Favaro | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Goals, Mission, Strategy, Vision

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Content: Quotation | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subjects: Achievement, Execution, Goals, Planning, Strategy

Goals may cause systematic problems for organizations due to narrowed focus, unethical behavior, increased risk taking, decreased cooperation, and decreased intrinsic motivation. Use care when applying goals in your organization.

Content: Quotation | Author: Daniel Pink | Subjects: Goals, Organizational Behavior

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

Content: Quotation | Author: Andrew Carnegie | Subjects: Achievement, Goals, Personal Development

Trying to implant a goal that is incongruent with the self-image is like trying to plant a grain by dropping seeds on rock-hard, bone-dry ground. No one can consistently out perform his or her self-image. No one can overcome it with willpower. No one can sneak past it and perform in an incongruent manner. The bottom line is that you cannot “do” things without “being” … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Maxwell Maltz | Subjects: Achievement, Goals, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Content: Quotation | Author: Harvey Mackay | Subject: Goals

There is a growing set of research that shows “learning or mastery” goals have much more positive effects on performance and internal motivation than “performance” goals.

Content: Quotation | Author: Max H. Bazerman | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Goals, Organizational Behavior

When we factor in the consistent findings that stretch and specific goals both narrow focus on a limited set of behaviors while increasing risk-taking and unethical behavior, their simple implementation can become a vice. Goals are appropriate when you know exactly what behaviors you want, you aren’t concerned about secondary behaviors, and unethical behavior is not a big risk.

Content: Quotation | Author: Max H. Bazerman | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Goals

Most companies strive to maximize shareholder wealth—a goal that is inadequate in many respects. As an emotional catalyst, wealth maximization lacks the power to fully mobilize human energies. It’s an insufficient defense when people question the legitimacy of corporate power. And it’s not specific or compelling enough to spur renewal.

Content: Quotation | Author: Gary Hamel | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Goals, Miscellaneous, Mission

If you ask young men what they want to accomplish by the time they are 40, the answers you get fall into two distinct categories. There are those—the great majority—who will respond in terms of what they want to have. This is especially true of graduate students of business administration. There are some men, however, who will answer in terms of the kind of men … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Seymour Tilles | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Goals, Mission, Planning

The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.

Content: Quotation | Source: USC School of Law Commencement – May 13 | Subjects: Goals, Wisdom

The world has a way, not only of stepping aside for men or women who know where they are going, but it often joins and helps them reach their objective.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Goals, Success / Failure

The principle of obliquity…says that some objectives are best pursued indirectly. We are all familiar with one application of the principle of obliquity. While Americans, characteristically, talk of the pursuit of happiness, happiness is rarely best achieved when it is pursued. Research in social psychology confirms our intuition and experience. Happy people are not, in the main, those who selfishly promote their own interests: in … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: johnkay.com | Subjects: Goals, Miscellaneous

The goal fallacy, then, is that though the periodic process of goal setting is well entrenched in the management practices of a growth enterprise, the process of goal attainment-monitoring, then taking the day-to-day actions that lead to attainment-is not. In fact, by defining a specific goal, management often fools itself into thinking it has implemented an element of company strategy.

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Goals, Management

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Achievement, Goals