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Why Two Financial Targets Can Be Better than One

Harvard Business Review

As consultants, we once helped a manufacturing plant director discover how we could save $20 million from his costs in the coming year. First, it would make it seem as though he had “sandbagged” his budget. The team member views the agreed-upon target as a performance floor, the manager, as a performance ceiling.

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