This year, I made my professional and personal goals public in order to demonstrate one effective characteristic of goal setting- going public with them. So, did going public help? Here’s how this year shook out: Goal 1. Maximize productivity in the morning. Result: Accomplished, but room for improvement. I didn’t get up as early as I had planned, and I really owe more credit to this happening to my running accountability partner and my early-bird three year old than I do myself. But, mornings have gone a lot smoother this year. Goal 2. Grow company revenue by 30% or more
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I will never forget the conversation in the car on the way back from a meeting in Montgomery with my then boss. I had been accepted into the graduate school program of my choice and was working full-time in economic development. The graduate program was full-time and a two-hour drive away, but I didn’t want to give up the job. I waited until about half-way into in to the two and a half hour car ride home, to say. “I want to go back to graduate school.” “Okay,” my boss said. “I got accepted.” “Where?” He said. “Middle Tennessee State”
I attended a seminar last week discussing ways to improve productivity and communication in the workplace. One thing that stood out to me in the presentation was the emphasis the presenter placed on eliminating stressors so that people could be innovative and creative. He placed a value on innovation and creativity as the only differentiating factors in creating a sustainable advantage. What if standard or traditional work arrangements are creating workplace stressors and reducing innovation and creativity? This leads me to consider a tie to a book I mentioned last week, The Elephant and the Flea and its emphasis on
I spent the whole month of January last year blogging about New Year’s Resolution-ish posts tied mostly to goal setting. You can check them all out here: Strategic Resolutions Your Stop Doing List (The article by Jim Collins linked in this post is one of my absolute favs) Goal Setting- A Series Goal Setting- Diminishing Returns Goal Setting- Feedback Although I’m not going to spend the whole month of January this year talking about making yourself over with goal setting, (because by the time we get to the end of January we will probably have ditched most of our