Career · FORTUNE
Fortune #29
Mixed — reflect carefully
If a goal changes midway, revisit scope and dates too. Otherwise new work can pile onto old work without more time.
QUOTE CARD
A quote for you
“คุณไม่สามารถบรรลุเป้าหมายได้หากปราศจากความบ้าคลั่งเล็กน้อย”
— อับราฮัม เวอร์กีส
แพทย์ อาจารย์ และนักเขียนชาวอเมริกัน ผู้เน้นความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างแพทย์กับผู้ป่วย
- Person
- Abraham Verghese
- Source work
- Quotes / The Covenant of Water (2023)
- Source text
- You can’t set out to achieve your goals without a little madness.
STORY & REFLECTION
A new goal added to an old workload
Guidance-based illustration · A new goal added to an old workload
Illustrative scene: A team is preparing a report for existing users. Midweek, leadership asks to include a new customer group but leaves the deadline unchanged.
The owner explains that two days of new data collection are needed and offers either less detail elsewhere or a later date. The decision-maker can see the cost of the changed goal.
OPM describes performance management as planning, monitoring, developing, rating, and rewarding. Agreed goals and measures help people understand which results their effort should serve.
Useful flexibility includes naming what must give way, not accepting a new goal and hoping the clock will stretch.
Reflection
A changed goal needs a changed plan.
A small action today
Summarize effects on time and existing work.
A question to reflect on
When the goal changed, which earlier task needed to stop or move?