How NOT to set Objectives

Management Skills

Most of us have come across SMART objectives, and we kind of get why they are a good idea.  If people are working towards well formed objectives, it tends to improve their performance somewhat. How else did we get the 4 minute mile  (set 60 years ago this month, as it...

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Business Skills Training, Life Skills

Last year I worked out something pretty important.  In my fourth year of being self employed (and the fourth year of the recession, as it happens), I finally realised that I was allowing myself to chase any piece of viable business that moved.  I had set myself...