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Pop your head inside any organisation and you’re likely to overhear managers talking about objectives and KPIs. Also coming under the broader umbrella terms of ‘goals’ or ‘targets’, they’re intended to keep every employee more focused on their tasks than a cat on a laser pointer.
For decades it was thought that a Harvard study had found that people who write down their objectives can be up to 10x more successful than those who don’t! In reality, it turned out that this study never actually happened (whoops!). Thankfully, a real study by Gail Matthews at Dominican University found that committing to written goals and regularly updating your progress towards them really does let you accomplish a lot more.
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