From the desk of Caspar:
Are you sabotaging your Big Bold Goals
The very nature of annual goal setting runs the very real risk of sabotaging the big bold goals of your team.
All too often I’ve seen teams set an ambitious goal and then in a heartbeat totally undermine it by setting a 3, 6 or 12 month goal that runs counter to the overall goal.
Case in point is Climate Change. In his recent book, Bill Gates points out that the strategies to get to carbon zero by 2050 are fundamentally different strategies to the “reduction strategies” that so many countries are aiming at for 2030.
The danger is they hit the 2030 targets and totally sabotage the ability to hit 2050 goals - goals which require fundamental rethinking right now of how we for example generate and use power.
The two goals are inconsistent with each other (more on this in the video below).
Tip: When you set your ambitious goal be in the clouds, blue sky and creative zone to create it. When it comes to mapping out how to get there, get your finest detail focused minds working with you as a team work out how to close the gap. It won’t happen overnight and it will be challenging. By definition! But goodness me is it essential.
Influencing the strong minded
He kicked his comments off with a compliment:
“Mr. Jobs, you’re a bright and influential man.”
As the audience laughed, Jobs replied, “Here it comes.”
Brilliant article by Adam Grant on 4 very practical strategies for persuasion.
It’s well worth a read for some fascinating Steve Jobs stories which demonstrate the importance of a team, as well as some insights into how to persuade and influence ‘strong-minded’ people.
https://hbr.org/2021/03/persuading-the-unpersuadable#
Big Bold Bites
Are you accidentally sabotaging your big bold goals?
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