https://www.scmp.com/rss/326060/feed Associate Professor and AGSM fellow at UNSW Business School. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com There has been a lot of work in the area of organisational psychology around challenging goals, and this has underpinned calls for adopting “stretch goals” to increase overall organisational performance. Indeed, the leadership of chief executive Jack Welch and his implementation of stretch goals is often credited with the success of the US conglomerate General Electric in the 1990s. The idea is that goals around metrics such as profit, market share and the share price would be set so high that... https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2124454/dont-stretch-it-aspirational-targets-can-be-effective-there?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2124454/dont-stretch-it-aspirational-targets-can-be-effective-there?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 16 Dec 2017 04:03:39 +0000