The Dangers of Setting Performance Goals
Posted on | July 20, 2015 | No Comments
I’m a big fan of setting goals. Just by simply setting a goal, you increase your chances for succeeding. But researchers are now learning that there is also a downside to goals.
An overly narrow focus on a specific domain of performance can certainly enhance your performance in that domain. But at what cost? When there is complexity involved (and isn’t there always complexity?), the specificity of setting a singular performance goal inhibits learning, adapting, and innovating. It narrows our thinking and problem-solving, which can actually impair performance in complex situations where there isn’t always a clear and consistent relationship between an action and an outcome.
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