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Performance goals = really what a manager needs to do

Decades of research, ultimately amounting to nada.

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Ted Bauer
May 12, 2017
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Let's be blunt for a second: work should be about performance goals, and essentially nothing else. The time you sit there shouldn't matter. How you achieve the goals shouldn't matter (so long as it's not unethical). The process should be followed, but if the process is jamming people up, the performance goals should supersede the process.

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