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20/04/201028/12/2014 on management, planning, seddon, systems, systems thinking

Setting targets actually decreases your performance. Don’t believe me? See this video…

Many of the readers of this blog have probably faced this situation already in the past. When I was adopting Scrum in a local company, I was faced with the tyranny of setting targets. Targets and bonuses were part of that company’s HR policies. “This is how we motivate people” as the saying goes. Now …

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