Objective Setting Quotes

Begin with the end in mind.

From a productivity perspective, prioritization is key. And it's very easy to focus on clearing the decks of minutia, especially when one's very busy. It's almost easy to want to sit down at your desk when you have a free five minutes and try to clear out some of the incoming emails rather than strip things strategically and foundationally and ask about what the most important objectives for you and the company are.

We started off with a set of objectives for what we needed to communicate with the company's identity, created several proposals intended to meet those objectives, and picked the one that did the best job.

A policy needs a clear goal.

I really believe in setting goals, no matter what it is: whether it's losing five pounds or making the world championship team.

Everybody has some kind of addiction. It's about how you get around that addiction. First, you have to break the habit like anything. You have to define the hurdle or the objective.

Intelligence is just a tool to be used toward a goal, and goals are not always chosen intelligently.

When you have been working so hard to reach a specific goal and then you realise that ambition, it's not always easy to raise yourself for another objective.

Any approach to strategy quickly encounters a conflict between corporate objectives and corporate capabilities. Attempting the impossible is not good strategy. It is just a waste of resources.

My job is not to make decisions but to set stretch objectives and help our managers work out how to reach them.

A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing neither too much nor too little.

When you delegate work to the member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives.

You perform at your best when you are working continually on high-priority goals and objectives.

One has to define very clearly what one's objectives are, determine in advance how much one is prepared to pay to achieve that objective and then act accordingly.

It's just like, you make a goal list - you write your goals down, you check it off once you get there and you make a new one.

All good performance starts with clear goals.

You need to adjust your compass to an obtainable goal.

Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams.

Recruit entrepreneurial leaders and give them freedom to determine the best path to achieving their objectives. On the other hand, individuals must commit fully to the system you use and be held rigorously accountable for their objectives. You give them freedom, but freedom within a framework.

I try and set goals and stick to them.

Focus on a few key objectives ... I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right number of dollars, and transmit ideas from one division to another with the speed of light. So I'm really in the business of being the gatekeeper and the transmitter of ideas.