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You need to build your goal muscles gradually, incrementally… Doing too much too soon will definitely end in pain.
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Research shows that public goals are more likely to be attained than goals held in private. Simply flipping the switch to ‘open’ lifts achievement across the board.
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To avoid compulsive, soul-killing overalignment, healthy organizations encourage some goals to emerge from the bottom up.
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When goals are public and visible to all, a ‘team of teams’ can attack trouble spots when they surface.
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When employees align with a company’s top-line goals, their impact is amplified.
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Studies have told us forever that frontline employees thrive when they can see how their work aligns to the company’s overall goals.
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…the simple act of writing down a goal increases your chances of reaching it.
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Whenever a key result or objective becomes obsolete or impractical, feel free to end it midstream.
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…the key to satisfaction is to set aggressive goals, achieve most of them, pausse to reflect on the achievement, and then repeat the cycle.
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The higher the stakes, the more important it is to track progress – to flag looming problems, double back from dead ends, and modify goals on the run.
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