Comments on: Setting and Cascading Goals for Increased Effectiveness

By: Krista Collins

Krista Collins — Sat, 29 May 2010 18:14:11 +0000

Hah am I honestly the first reply to this incredible read?

By: strategic change management

strategic change management — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:09:15 +0000

strategic change management…

Great post. My approach to strategic change management says the quality of the first five percent determines what happens in the rest of the process. This same principle applies to many situations….

By: Setting and Cascading Goals for Increased Effectiveness - Leader Letter Archive

Setting and Cascading Goals for Increased Effectiveness - Leader Letter Archive — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:41:16 +0000

[...] In response to my November 6 blog posting with the above title, Ravi Tangri posted the following comment. Click here to read my blog post. [...]

By: admin

admin — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:53:38 +0000

I’ve known and really come to appreciate Ravi Tangri’s energy and thought leadership through our membership in the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers. You can read his blog at http://ravitangri.typepad.com/lead or visit his website at http://www.co-creatingfutures.com.

The entire June 2005 issue of The Leader Letter was built from, and around, this topic and the diagram in this blog posting. Sections include Common Causes of Priority Overload, Steps to a Goal Deployment System, Tips for Setting Team or Organizational Goals and Priorities, Leading by Example: Setting Personal Goals and Priorities, and Thoughts That Make You Go Hmmmm… on Goals and Priorities. Click here to read the June 2005 issue. http://jimclemmer.com/newsl/june2005.html

I first came across this cascading goal approach as “Hoshin Planning” in 1990 when we were developing our Service/Quality System at The Achieve Group (from which Firing on All Cylinders: The Service/Quality System for High-Powered Corporate Performance was written). Since then I have encountered numerous variations on the theme. Of course, Peter Drucker really started the whole concept with his Management by Objectives concepts back in the 1950s.

By: ErvinTW

ErvinTW — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:45:16 +0000

Thanks! Nice post.

By: Ravi Tangri

Ravi Tangri — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:42:32 +0000

This is really interesting, Jim. What you’ve described here aligns almost perfectly with a systems approach developed by a mentor of mine, Michael Basch, author of Customer Culture, and the man who created all the systems that made FedEx legendary in its first couple of decades.

I’ve used Mike’s systems approach for 15 years now, and, like all of his tools, it’s incredibly simple/ easy to understand and yet incredibly powerful. It’s a great tool for diagnosing problems and for debugging a redesign after a significant change (if you want to see how well it correlates with your framework, I wrote an article about it here: http://www.co-creatingfutures.com/content.php?page_ID=374.

Glad you highlighted this here, Jim.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:24:56 +0000

If you’d like a tool for setting your goals, you can use this web application:

http://www.Gtdagenda.com

You can use it to manage your goals, projects and tasks, set next actions and contexts, use checklists, schedules and a calendar.
A mobile version and iCal are available too.