What are your business goals for 2025? / WIP
take an hour and write up as many goals as you can for what you’d like to accomplish in the next one to five years. Then prioritize the list, pick a few that you’d like to focus on for the next three to six months, and share it with your manager at your next one-on-one.
Will Larson • An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
Setting goals: When you think about your work in the year ahead, what specific goals will guide you?98 In
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
“What are your big goals and focuses right now?”
Rob Fitzpatrick • The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
4. Dedicate time to think about the future.
5. Routinely “check in” on long-term goals.
6. Work backwards.
5. Routinely “check in” on long-term goals.
6. Work backwards.
Sean Blanda • The Jeff Bezos School of Long-Term Thinking
“What’s preventing you from achieving your ten-year goals inside of six months?” — Peter Thiel
What are the real obstacles that are preventing you?
Don’t arbitrarily try to achieve goals in predetermined time frames.
Compress your timelines.
In six months, you'll be thanking yourself.
What are the real obstacles that are preventing you?
Don’t arbitrarily try to achieve goals in predetermined time frames.
Compress your timelines.
In six months, you'll be thanking yourself.
Alex Banks • Sunday Signal: Tesla’s new Optimus demo, random walks and Steve Jobs’ career advice
After years of helping teams with OKRs, I've noticed three things that make the difference between goals that stick and ones that fade away:
- Get Specific: "I want to write more" isn't a goal. "I will write 500 words every Tuesday and Thursday morning before checking email" is. One's a hope; the other's a commitment.
- Choose Something That Matters: We
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‘What do you want to do in five years?’
Ben Casnocha • The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age
The first step of this strategy is to identify the main high-level goals in both your professional and your personal life. If you have a family, for example, then your personal goals might involve parenting well and running an organized household. In the professional sphere, the details of these goals depend on what you do for a living. In my own w
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