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SUMMARY:How Targets Impact Productivity
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260506T190000
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Targets are a common way for managers to monitor, motivate, and control the activities of individual subordinates, workgroups, and even whole subsidiary organizations and government departments. Although the idea of targets seems plausible, there is little evidence that they actually work in the way they are supposed to. Targets are almost always counterproductive. Psychologically speaking, the concept is flawed as it is based on a misconception about how systems work and what keeps people motivated.
This lesson includes the following topics:

The key systems factor that undermines the effectiveness of targets as a motivating force
The eight reasons why targets tend to trigger the stress response
How targets distort information flows and harm interactions between staff and functions
How targets tend to distort operational focus away from the core purpose
Why a target culture increasingly shuts down the is the thinking capacity of the organization harming the self-regulating...

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