Beginning with the End in Mind

Negative effects of Explicit Goals

   Goal blindness

            You are offered a banned performance-enhancing substance that comes with two guarantees: 1) You will not be caught, and 2) You will win every competition you enter for the next five years, and then you will die from the side effects of the substance. Would you take it?


   Corruption

            Campbell's Law: "The more any quantitative performance measure is used to determine an individual's rewards, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures, and the more it will distort the action and thought patterns of those it is designed to monitor."

©2002 Paul Whitmore