How do you navigate the cost of learning?
What sort of world would we have if we could improve ourselves in any way possible, at any time, without any limits?Want to get an MBA? Great, let’s start today.Want to figure out how to fix those leadership challenges you face at the office? Fine, do this, and...
SMART Goals Prioritize Short-Term Success
Many of us have the experience of creating SMART goals, especially during that once-a-year time when organizations tend to focus upon them. You know, we set our goals for the next year, and while they are often organizationally-focused and based on the context we know...
SMART Goals Assume Contextual Stability
Continuing our exploration of challenges to the notion and practice of SMART Goals, after the one I recently wrote related to the goals being more for my organization than for me, we come to the ever-present conflict that all project managers face.How do we build...
Is the Organizational Focus a SMART Goal Challenge?
Yesterday I invited us to consider if anything seems somehow distancing or not quite right about how we perceive SMART Goals. One way of considering this involves being aware of when our eyes sometimes glaze over or we have an immediate reaction when we hear them used...
