DEVELOPING GOALS THAT WORK
“We overestimate what we can accomplish in one year, but we underestimate what we can accomplish in five.”
—Peter Drucker, management guru and author (1909–2005)
As a manager, you will develop goals for your employees, team, department, division, and company. But you should also set goals for yourself. Creating goals that improve performance takes more planning and thought than most people realize.
Although the concept of setting goals may be easy to grasp, many managers don’t know how to do it. Personal development coach Gene Donohue, founder of the online motivational site Top Achievement, believes that “the difference between a goal and a dream is the written word.” Real goal-setting goes beyond simply drawing ...
