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Enjoyed this tidbit from the bottom of the article: “To motivate their employees, organizations often want employees to set stretch goals – goals that are ch
by thecosas 3y ago
Enjoyed this tidbit from the bottom of the article:
“To motivate their employees, organizations often want employees to set stretch goals – goals that are challenging and hard-to-reach. However, we found that setting a stretch goal and not meeting it makes someone look less powerful than setting an easy goal and surpassing it,” said Rady School PhD student Shuang Wu, the first author of the paper.
- FredPret 3y agoLet me tell you - I did a five-star job of opening my laptop this morning. Just super - knocked it out of the park.
- m463 3y agodon't break the hinge achieving your stretch goal. :)
- jyunwai 3y agoI hadn't considered the aspect of 'looking powerful/competent' before, but I have found setting limited goals useful for thinking strategically. The practical benefits of a limited versus highly ambitious short-term goal from the outset include an avoidance of 'feature creep' where you're tempted to add more nice-to-have features partway through, more self-confidence that you can achieve the goal with a little effort, and a clearly-identified decision point upon achieving the goal, where you can decide whether to continue on with the project for more ambitious goals, or satisfyingly call the project complete. In educational psychology, this is known as the "zone of proximal development" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_proximal_development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_proximal_development), which I've also heard as called "i+1 planning."