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-{{a|hr|{{image|Knee-slide|jpg|Goal accomplished, yesterday.}}}}Why employee [[Performance conversation|performance goals]] — especially ones that are
+{{a|hr|{{image|Knee-slide|jpg|Goal accomplished, yesterday.}}}}Why [[Performance conversation|performance goals]] — especially ones that are
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-Aren’t such a good thing.
+Aren’t so ''smart''..
-===HR likes them===
+===They are [[HR]]’s idea===
-This ought to be enough of a reason: any piece of management orthodoxy that works for [[human resources]] — that make the lives of the high-modernists of [personnel]] easier — that makes you more ''measurable'' and ''boxable'' — is unlikely to work for you, your manager, or the business you serve.
+This ought to be enough of a reason: any piece of management orthodoxy that makes it easier for the [[high-modernist]]s of [personnel]] to ''measure'', ''read'' and ''box'' you — will be little use to you, your [[line manager]], or the business you serve.
-The world is a far messier, less convenient place than is dreamt of in any HCM philosophy. “SMART” only works on one axis: whether by some arbitrary point in time, you did an arbitrary thing or not.
+The world is a far messier, less convenient place than is dream’t of in any [[HCM]] philosophy. “SMART” only works on one axis: whether by some arbitrary point in time, you did an arbitrary thing or not.
 A box can be ticked. Personnel happy, but — really, is that all your contribution amounts to?
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 General rule: ''[[don’t tick boxes]]''.
 ===They are a [[proxy]] for something else===
-Goals tend to be a [[proxy]] or a [[second-order derivative]] of an idealised state: “getting down to 70kg” rather than “becoming healthy, funny and physically appealing” — which is most likely what you really want. And, as with all Greek tragedies one can attain the proxy without achieving the end state it is intended to achieve — you starve yourself, you may attain 70 kg but have bad breath, a waxen complexion and liver disease.
+Goals are inevitably a [[proxy]] or a [[second-order derivative]] of an idealised state: “getting down to 70kg” rather than “becoming healthy, funny and physically appealing” — which is most likely what you really want. And, as with all Greek tragedies one can attain the proxy without achieving the end state it is intended to achieve — you starve yourself, you may attain 70 kg but have bad breath, a waxen complexion and liver disease.
 Working hypothesis: the ironies implicit in mythological fortune telling arise ''because'' the “fortunes” that flawed heroes seek are ''goals'' and not ''systems''. So, Macbeth indeed becomes King — SMART goal achieved! — but it isn’t the ''experience'' he had in mind. Might Macbeth have found self-fulfilment ''without'' being king? A happy grandfather, respected by the royal court? ''Alive''?