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Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
The shocking revelation was that in almost every single case, more than 99% of cases, if you looked at something interesting, like a car, for example, or a butterfly or a bird or whatever it might be, if you go back in its history and you look at what were the steps that led to that thing, the steps look nothing like it at some point back. Right be... See more
Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Greatness Without Goals
So it's both scary and exciting that the greatest things that any of us might accomplish are not something that we can imagine or something that we could accomplish through just a linear progression. So I'd love to describe what you think this means for how people should behave, especially ambitious people that want to achieve great things or affec... See more
Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Greatness Without Goals
Many shared visions are extrinsic—that is, they focus on achieving something relative to an outsider, such as a competitor. Yet, a goal limited to defeating an opponent is transitory. Once the vision is achieved, it can easily migrate into a defensive posture of “protecting what we have, of not losing our number-one position.” Such defensive goals
... See morePeter M. Senge • The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
The first thing you need to do is to choose a clearly defined goal.