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?”

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