PART EIGHTEEN
Goal setting
There is a story that only 3 per cent of students leaving Yale University in a particular year wrote their goals in the yearbook. Twenty years later, their net worth was greater than that of the other 97 per cent put together. The story is apocryphal and denied by the university. It does, however, illustrate the thinking prevalent in organisations that everyone will be more successful if they set goals.
There is a danger in goal setting that you sell yourself short. You set a goal that is highly achievable and you meet it. You don’t learn from it, you didn’t stretch yourself and you may well have achieved without formalising the goal in the first place. The debate continues and the jury is still out, determining whether ...
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