June 2012
6 posts
To make knowledge work fully productive, requires...
To make knowledge work fully productive requires many things [Frederick Winslow] Taylor did not concern himself with. It requires objectives and goals. It requires priorities and measurements. It requires systematic abandonment of the tasks that no longer produce and of the services that are no longer needed. It also requires organization, largely along the lines of the ‘matrix...
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“The more knowledge-based an institution becomes, the more it depends on the...”
– Peter Drucker
May 2012
11 posts
Why Goals
Successful entrepreneurs start with a vision of what their business is going to look like. Vision provides clarity; they have a clear picture in their mind as to what the end result looks like. The path to reaching their objectives is built on a strategy. What are goals? Jack Canfield, author of the Success Principles, advises people who are serious about goal setting to begin by committing...
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The Need of Tracking Objectives For Success
Objectives are must today for anyone to succeed, whether the person is a student or a businessman. For student getting through his/her every internals with flying colors is an objective, which helps them reach the ultimate goal, which is to be the topper in the class. And as per any business persons thought, it keeps telling then to perform better than the last month, so that his or her company...
Management by Objectives (MBO)
Motivating people by aligning their objectives with the goals of the organization For many people working in modern business environments, it’s hard to remember a time when non-managerial employees weren’t involved with, and interested in, corporate strategy and goals. We are regularly reminded about the corporate mission statement, we have strategy meetings where the “big...
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Understanding Objectives Vs. Tasks
Objectives are the end points envisioned for the proposed project. These objectives might be, for example, development of a specified measurement capability that meets a prescribed accuracy, data rate, instrument packaging characteristics (size, weight, etc.), and other possible requirements. Objectives are desired end points for the proposed project. Analogies would be the goal line in a...
Vision. Goals. Objectives. Tasks. Timelines....
Vision The first step in setting goals and priorities is to personally develop what the organization should look like at some point in the future — a vision. A junior leader, such as a supervisor or line manager, will mainly be concerned with a department, section, or small group of people. While senior leaders set the vision for the entire organization. However, both types of visions need to...
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Three keys to getting good results from setting...
There are really three key considerations to getting good results from setting objectives:
Make sure your organization is strategically aligned behind what the goals of the company are so that everyone is pulling in the same direction.
Make sure your objective setting is measurable so you can tell whether anything is getting done towards them with clarity.
Make sure your objective setting is...
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Best practices and supporting systems to achieve...
In order to achieve these goals, there are some characteristics of best practices and supporting systems. You want objective setting that: 1. Cascades objectives (strategic alignment) Ideally the people in your organization should have easy ways to set objectives up that are designed to contribute directly to higher order objectives set by the management structure above them. 2. Encourages...
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Guidelines for Writing Objectives
Your commitment to action is necessary for the formulation of objectives. Your objective should begin with “To” and followed by an action verb—something that can be done by a person. Any particular objective is achieved as a result of action.
An objective should specify a single key result so the main focus isn’t lost in translation. Make sure the key result is clear so that the objective...
Goals vs. Objectives
The words Goal and Objective are often confused with each other. They both describe things that a person may want to achieve or attain but in relative terms may mean different things. Both are desired outcomes of work done by a person but what sets them apart is the time frame, attributes they’re set for and the effect they inflict. Goal Objective Plan: Broad plan Narrow plan...
