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TBM 41/51: Why Goal Cascades are Harmful (and What to Do Instead)
Overpowered Metrics Eat Underspecified Goals
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On the topic of goals, the academic research agrees with your intuition: Having goals improves performance.113 Spending hours cascading goals up and down the company, however, does not.114 It takes way too much time and it’s too hard to make sure all the goals line up.
Laszlo Bock • Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead
Conventional goal-setting sucks because it overlooks the actually important part of agreeing on goals collectively, which is to also agree on what you’re willing (and unwilling) to give up to achieve those shared goals. By not paying attention to what tradeoffs stakeholders believe are (or aren’t) acceptable, conventional goal-setting makes conflic... See more
vaughn tan • Unpacking Boris
High-level insight
Most companies do not operate in ways they realize their vision by continuously aligning business goals with customers' needs and pain points. Product teams need to be aligned on business objectives and be allowed to operate at an initiative level to impact those objectives.
Author describes different processes to set product team ... See more
Most companies do not operate in ways they realize their vision by continuously aligning business goals with customers' needs and pain points. Product teams need to be aligned on business objectives and be allowed to operate at an initiative level to impact those objectives.
Author describes different processes to set product team ... See more