When they know exactly where they are headed employees are more likely to arrive there successfully. Goals challenge the brain not to surrender too soon. They invite mystery when they are created together with employees. Like questions, goals can diminish progress if they are pushed rather than collaborated. Ralph Waldo Emerson showed the fine line between these two, that exists, when said, Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
Great leaders create winding staircases upon which intelligent people climb higher.
Interview one business expert on keys that unlock success and value people. When leaders help employees to set and stand by significant goals, fortune favors their future, and abandons former timidity. It s one thing to show workers their weakness, and another to put them in touch with their strengths. Through goals raised, employees unique gifts become torches that gleam through fog of former failures without dispelling confidence. Nothing is more damaging to new directions than unclear directions, where old errors replay again and again for future failure.