The Rules Of Management (Pioneer Panel's Library) by Richard Templar

Author:Richard Templar
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: FT Press
Published: 2011-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

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IF YOU TURN IN GOOD WORK AND THEN ONE DAY HAND IN A PILE OF JUNK, PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THINK YOU’VE BLOWN IT.

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Chapter 47. Set Realistic Targets for Yourself—No, Really Realistic

We’re not talking budgets here or corporate targets. We’re talking personal goals, personal objectives, personal bottom lines. You have to set them or you won’t be able to determine whether you are a success. There’s no point, by the way, in judging yourself against anyone else. I always wanted to be terribly good at a sport, but I can’t run and failed miserably. It has always led me to believe I am a failure, but I found out the other day that there is a gene for good sporting skills, and it is one I obviously don’t have. Am I a failure? Nope, just genetically challenged, and I can’t beat myself up about that. I am good at other things and I measure my success against

• How I was doing last year

• How I was doing five years ago

• How I’m doing against my personal targets

• How I’m doing against my long-term plan

There isn’t another person in sight because measuring yourself against anyone else is a mug’s game.

I once owned a motorcycle—a rather grand one and I loved it very much. I came alongside another motorcyclist at the traffic lights and looked his bike over. “That’s the one I want,” I cried to myself in the splendid isolation of my crash helmet. He was looking at my bike and obviously thinking the same thing. As the lights changed and we both roared away together, I realized he and I were riding identical bikes. Ah, the fickle mind, how it winds us up, beats us up, and plays tricks. Look at anyone and chances are there will be something to envy, but you don’t know what goes on inside them. Walk a mile in someone else’s shoes, they say, and chances are you’ll be a mile away; but you’ve got their shoes; make a run for it.

So set yourself some targets but be realistic about them. I’m going to be Emperor of the World may sound impressive but it is totally unrealistic.

Make your targets challenging but attainable, realistic but a bit of a struggle—no good making them too easy, nor too hard.

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