Resilience Coffee/2025/05/16
Setting Goals and following through[edit | edit source]
- Personally
- Professionally
- Imposed
- Let other's set the requirements, then point out the conflicting requirements
- Reliability goals are going to be secondary: means to achieve some other end
- Self-directed
- Outcomes vs Outputs
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Make the implicit explicit
- Motivation, measurement
- define values
- Goals are necessarily incomplete and have gaps between them
- [[Four Disciplines of Execution https://pages.franklincovey.com/rs/524-AUO-315/images/MRK1948901_FY204DX_FC-ExclBookSum_DigCamVer_%5Bv1.0.2%5D.pdf]]
- Various approaches to goals: some more firm than others
- Goal concepts they like vs unworkable
- Accountability
- S.M.A.R.T. Goals Measurable along the way rather than just at the end
- Clarity is important
- Turn the Ship Around talks about Clarity in this sense (alongside Context and Control)
- Goals in Tension
- wikipedia:Goodhart's law
- wikipedia:McNamara fallacy
- Strategic Management and Organizational Dynamics - Textbook mentioned by Maria
- Emergent phenomena - local control and power
- Santa Fe Institute
- "Burnout isn't from working too much, its from working on stuff you can't change" (Loosely transcribed)
- https://heydonworks.com/article/marxian-alienation-and-web-development/
- Communicating ideas (that exist in vivid detail in your mind!) with words, to other people, is hard
- Tension between "never practicing failure scenarios because why would we intentionally CAUSE a failure in a critical business system?! and "yeah we have to test the system we're relying on to save us in event of failure"
- War and Peace - just because it's great doesn't mean it's an easy sell
- Story about how to respond to failure scenarios that involve employees - "Fire them or learn from it?"
- Imposed