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Goal setting at Google

21 February 2010

 
 
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Don Dodge, a Developer Advocate at Google helping developers build new applications on Google platforms and technologies, wrote an interesting post “How Google sets goals and measures success” discussing how Google goes about goal setting. Don describes the central philosophy to Google’s approach to goal setting is as follows:
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When goal-setting backfires

26 April 2009

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"A goal properly set is halfway reached." – Abraham Lincoln

“Ready, aim … fail” by Drake Bennett discusses research that found goals which are incorrectly set can have negative consequences. Goal-setting drives success and without clear goals we are for the most part unfocused and undisciplined.
“It is a given in American life that goals [...]

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How to Create Practical Checklists

13 April 2009

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The humble checklist has been used for may years as a memory aid. Checklists help to ensure tasks are completed to the right quality and standards. The best example of a checklist is the daily “to do” list, a reminder of what needs to be accomplished this day. In some cases [...]

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Leaders create the future by doing

15 March 2009

Bre Pettis and Kio Stark have developed and interesting manifesto called “The Cult of Done Manifesto”. Leadership is about creating, it’s not about problem solving. To create we must focus on doing, learning and adapting. The core idea in this manifesto, is the focus on doing, rather than first waiting to figure out what’s right, [...]

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The management of attention through vision

7 December 2008

 
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 “The scarcest resource for today’s business leaders is no longer just land, capital or human labor, and it certainly isn’t information. Attention is what’s in short supply..” -  Thomas H. Davenport and John C. Beck, “The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business” (Harvard Business School Press, 2001)

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Moving from a language of destinations to a language of action!

9 November 2008

 

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A post from Mark Howell from Strategy Central cites an interesting quote from David Maister’s blog on how to move from the language of destinations to action….
"Whether you are talking about purpose, mission, vision, values, goals, objectives or almost ANY of the traditional concepts that people use, the only practical way to [...]

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How to effectively delegate tasks…

20 July 2008

Effective leaders delegate tasks to others, this allows them to work of more important concerns and to help develop other people around them. However, the reality is that you can only delegate work, not responsibility, if it’s your accountability it remains your accountability no matter who does the work. This means that when you delegate [...]

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Planners vs searchers… the big programme vs small wins…

12 July 2008

Tom Peters has a great post on his blog, "The Right Plan Is to Have No Plan" which discusses two belief systems adopted by leaders seeking to initiate change, that of planners who seek to impose top down solutions, who Tom says “more or less believe that the plan is the thing—and that the messy [...]

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How to keep the company vision strong

24 June 2008

The Ken Blanchard Company newsletter, Ignite!, for November 2007 has a great article “Keeping a Vision Strong through All Levels of Your Organization” which discusses why vision tends to dilute as you move down the organisational structure.
“In most organizations, when executives create a vision for the entire company, they believe it provides clarity, focus and [...]

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The importance of questioning your work

16 June 2008

Taking time out to think and reflect on what your busy with and what’s your purpose, what are you striving to achieve? Then ask yourself, is what I’m doing directly contributing to my purpose? To remain on track 37signals suggests that to remain effective that we question our work, by asking the following:
 

 
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