By Mark Murphy, CEO of Leadership IQ – April 4,2010
A new study from Leadership IQ reveals that SMART Goals can be pretty dumb.
We studied 4,182 workers from 397 organizations to see what kind of goal-setting processes actually help employees achieve great things. (After all, isn’t that the whole point of having goals?)
Click here to download the complete research study called “Are SMART Goals Dumb?”
By Mark Murphy, CEO of Leadership IQ – November 10,2009
SMART goals have been the gold standard for as long as I can remember. And certainly we’ve all set our fair share of them. But in a time when reform is foremost on most folks’ minds, how can we fail to ask whether or not SMART goals are relevant in today’s world. Is it logic or blind faith that keeps so many leaders on the specific, measureable, achievable, realistic and time-bound path? Learn More…