Goals | Career Angles
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
A Management Lesson from Coach K
As I’ve come to work with people over many years, I’ve really come to loathe goal-setting work because I feel like I’m fighting upstream with people on their previous failures at keeping their goals. Whether it’s often attempting to stop smoking or lose weight, people set up goals and often fail.
That happens professionally, too. Organizations have weaponized goal setting and use the failure to accomplish the arbitrary goal to sabotage individuals and their careers. Who needs it? I sure don’t. I don’t think you do, either.
Any time you want to set out on a journey to accomplish an objective, I think the first question to ask yourself is, “What’s possible now?”
Once you know what’s possible now, then connect in that direction. Each day, each week, each month, each quarter, heck, each hour, ask yourself that question.
“What’s possible now?” By taking action on what’s possible now you’ll find that you’ve moved a lot, accomplished a lot, and achieved a lot.
And you won’t have the template of “setting goals” and the meaning that you attached to it laying on top of it.
Ⓒ The Big Game Hunter, Inc., Asheville, NC 2019
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