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How The Six Goal Genres Resolve the Conflict of Goals vs Goallessness

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

I don’t think I have any goals right now. I am a goal-setter, always have been, and have achieved almost all that I have set…. So…is it a problem to feel goal-less in my life and career? How is being goal-less affecting my work…? What exactly is a goal and why are goals important? The Six Goal Genres.

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How Leaders Can Get Better At Talking About Failure

The Horizons Tracker

They also uncovered six different forms of storytelling genre, including documentaries, fables, tragicomedies, Greek tragedy, and absurdist fiction. The researchers note that while the presentations obviously mentioned errors, they tended to focus on specific errors that led to the failure in question. What we try to achieve.

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5 Characteristics of Digital Giants that Enable Domination

Skip Prichard

Using the data on genre preferences, the food delivery app knows that Thai food is more popular than Italian in one zip code and can even build a ghost kitchen in localities to drive down cost and dominate a segment. These 100-year platforms enable digital giants to aggregate analytics, automation, and AI to power future decisions at scale.

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Reading for Lifetime Growth

Chris Brady

It was just that nobody, anywhere, at any time during my six years and two degrees of education had ever gotten it through my skull (nor even tried, truth be told) that reading is one of the most important habits for lifetime growth. I could go on, but my goal here is not to convince you of all the advantages of reading.

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Why Businesspeople Should Join Book Clubs

Harvard Business Review

One of my favorite regular activities is participating in a book club called Six Pillars, hosted by my friend Stan. Six Pillars is so named because each year we read six books in six key disciplines. The book club I belong to is an essential reminder of that goal. Groups help reinforce commitment.

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We Learn More When We Learn Together

Harvard Business Review

Staff at Jane’s business school designed a six-week course on positive leadership. Set learning goals for a specified time period, and invite one or two people to be your coaching partners to hold you accountable and cheer you on. Through regular, informal coaching sessions they were able to help each other reach their goals.

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Why Websites Still Can’t Predict Exactly What You Want

Harvard Business Review

To achieve that goal, the companies can’t just look at one’s historical browsing or purchase patterns. When I look for “water,” Poland Spring shows up at the top of the list; if I search “Poland Spring,” the computer knows my standard order of a six-pack of one-gallon containers. Here’s my take: it’s too simple.