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First Friday Book Synopsis
MAY 16, 2016
This comes from the GE discovery, in the Jack Welch era, that SMART goals alone were not enough. Going forward, every executive and department, in addition to delivering specific and achievable and timely objectives, would also have to identify a stretch goal—an aim so… Read More Will you be SMART, or will you Stretch?
First Friday Book Synopsis
JANUARY 26, 2012
In Built to Last, Jim Collins and Jerry Porras urge business leaders to set what they characterize as BHAGs: Big Hairy Audacious Goals. That is, an “audacious 10-to-30-year goal to progress toward an envisioned future.”
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First Friday Book Synopsis
APRIL 1, 2011
To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * When you fail to meet your goals, you might blame yourself, thinking that you lack talent or willpower. Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. In fact, [.].
First Friday Book Synopsis
JUNE 19, 2012
The book The Goal is a “business classic” we somehow have missed at the First Friday Book Synopsis. (Hint: read all the way to the end to get the point of this blog post – about expertise and experience). I am rectifying this, and will present this book at the August First Friday Book Synopsis. [.].
First Friday Book Synopsis
JULY 26, 2012
To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * Setting goals and sticking to them is important. But you should also occasionally reevaluate your goals. Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. Here [.].
First Friday Book Synopsis
AUGUST 6, 2012
Last Friday, I presented my synopsis of the business book classic, The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt & Jeff Cox. It is a genuine multi-year best seller, and now I know why. It is an incredibly useful, helpful, practical book. Written in fable form, it is set in a factory, but, [.].
First Friday Book Synopsis
APRIL 6, 2014
Black: “I call it the principle of obliquity: Goals are often best achieved without intending them.” from Obliquity: Why Our Goals are Best Achieved Indirectly by John Kay). (Sir James) Black probably created more shareholder value than any other man in postwar British business, but his motivation was to pursue chemistry, not profit.
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