1: Jack Welch returned from his trip to Japan in 1993 on fire about the power of stretch goals.
As GE’s CEO, the story of the Japanese bullet train inspired him to rethink his approach to goal-setting, according to Charles Duhigg in Smarter Faster Better.
Within six months, every GE division had a stretch goal.
But there was a catch.
Jack and the division leaders didn’t always agree on … continue reading
1: “It was the late 1980s and GE was the second most valuable company in America,” Charles Duhigg writes in Smarter Faster Better: The Transformative Power of Real Productivity.
“GE manufactured everything from lightbulbs to jet engines, refrigerators to railway cars,” Charles notes.
It was a massive enterprise employing more than 220,000 people.
The company’s leaders thought their formal goal-setting system was one of the keys to their success.… continue reading
1: How do we “develop a real plan for a better life?”
Trent Hamm tells us we start by selecting the areas of our lives on which we want to focus (Step One), outline where we are currently in each area (Step Two), where we want to be in five or ten years (Step Three) and brainstorm five to fifteen possible actions or projects that would … continue reading
1: How do we “develop a real plan for a better life?”
Trent Hamm tells us we start by selecting the areas of our lives on which we want to focus (step one), outline where we are currently (step two), where we want to be in five or ten years (step three), and brainstorm five to fifteen possible actions or projects that would move us from … continue reading
