Stellar Management Teams

6 Success metrics in the cockpit

Goal Itch

Symptoms: Blurred sense of reality, even blindness

Goal itch is roughly an opposite phenomenon to that earlier described as management team vertigo. High in a panoramic location it is easy to direct your focus onto a goal far away. At the same time, attention is drawn to the fact that, seen from a high position, the progress down there seems annoyingly slow. This is similar to standing in an observation tower and reviewing the progress of the work only from a distance . There you can see the whole picture, but at the same time, you wait more and more impatiently for the slow changes in the big picture.

Goal itch weakens the ability in the management team to see human beings and their activities that ...