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Goal-Setting

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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Keeping your goals in focus

30 August 2009

 
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The article “For This Guru, No Question Is Too Big” from the NY Times discusses the work of the best selling business author Jim Collins. Given the popularity of Jim Collins the article discussed how he allocates his time, which 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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10 Steps to Setting SMART objectives

15 October 2006

Setting effective objective to guide your team and organisation is very important for leader to get right. Badly formulated objectives will steer an organisation in the wrong direction. I found this 10 step approach to setting SMART objectives from the National Primary and Care Trust, it’s a great follow-on from my previous post.

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Setting SMART Objectives

11 March 2006

Nothing happens until we plan and good plans have goals and objectives. Setting goals and objectives correctly provides the necessary support and aids in there achievement. Before we dive into how to go about setting SMART objectives, it’s important to understand that there is a world of difference between goals and objectives.

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