It’s official: we can accomplish more and go farther if we dedicate ourselves to written goals, keep the goals on our corporate and personal radar screens and follow through on the steps required to make them happen.
Organizations enjoyed productivity gains as a result of management by objectives. Goal setting is the first step in management by objectives.
“Research on goal setting shows that it’s a very powerful technique to improve individual productivity and organizational effectiveness,”
Goals give us focus, get us going, add to our resolve and lead to actions.