If you have big aspirations for 2025—a big deadlift, a marathon, a change in the size of your body—I sure hope you haven’t translated them into the limited, pass-fail box-checking of a SMART goal. But ...

Most of us were taught to measure success by ticking off boxes on a to-do list or hitting predetermined milestones. It’s easy to fall into the trap of what is called the Performance Mindset. We’re ...

If you’ve heard any consultant talk about goal-setting techniques, you’ve heard about the SMART goal framework, but the framework has its limitations. In 1981, George T. Doran, a consultant and former ...

If you're going to set SMART Goals, you deserve to know the truth about their limitations. Every company in existence has set its share of SMART goals (the SMART acronym most commonly defined as ...

When George Doran coined the idea of SMART goals in 1981, he probably didn’t know how popular it would be. But popular it remains. The proliferation of the concept makes sense. Specific, Measurable, ...

When you set a goal, it should be “S.M.A.R.T.,” or so suggests the standard advice (even some of ours!). That stands for Specific, Measurable, something, something, Time-bound—there’s disagreement on ...

You probably know that setting goals is an essential part of any fitness or lifestyle change. Unfortunately, many people who set goals fail to achieve them. It’s not enough to just decide on a goal, ...

Why do some employees do better than others? According to goal-setting theory, one reason is that they have better, clearer goals. These goals guide their behavior towards better workplace output.

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