What Is Your Most Compelling Goal?

As a manager, you need to have a ''big-picture'' view of where you want to lead your people. What do you want them to do that will be worth remembering and telling their friends about next year or ten years from now? What one thing will you all look back on with the greatest pride and sense of accomplishment? Yet the daily crush of routine work can make it difficult to pay attention to such long-term concerns. Sometimes managers go for years without ever having more of a vision than simply surviving another week!

So take this moment to think about your current work situation (or one you will soon be in if you expect to advance to a higher level of management in the near future). Stop and think about what you ...

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