Summary:
Today’s episode, we analyze and debate a recent posting that seemingly pits Systems versus Goals. This takes us down an interesting journey with respect to systems, system’s thinking and the importance for leaders to view their organizations as a system or system of systems. Next we turn our attention to the critical value of goals with an acute awareness of the potential pitfalls of targets in order to minimize the unintended consequences of hyper focus on meeting those targets irrespective of achieving desired outcomes.
In exploring the notion of systems versus goals, we arrive instead that in fact it is both, getting the goals right AND building healthy systems to support the achieve worthy goals.