Systematic Side Effects News Today

We can probably agree that it's good to have goals. In business, especially, it's good to know where you're going and to have some mechanisms that help you chart and evaluate your progress. Increasingly, though, we're presented with more and more evidence suggesting that our goal-setting can easily go awry, and with dramatically counter-productive results.…

Goal setting. We do it every day. Usually, we have multiple goals running at the same time. Finish a marathon, learn Italian, master the violin. Personal goals like those are healthy and keep us moving forward. And because goals work well for us, we think they must work well for our organization ...