http://www.tacticalphilanthropy.com/2009/05/do-goals-hurt-your-chance-of-success Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:42:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.tacticalphilanthropy.com/2009/05/do-goals-hurt-your-chance-of-success/comment-page-1#comment-6971 Sean Stannard-Stockton Wed, 20 May 2009 15:03:48 +0000 http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2009/05/do-goals-hurt-your-chance-of-success#comment-6971 Thanks Chris. Seems once again we have to learn that "moderation in everything" is the path to success! Thanks Chris. Seems once again we have to learn that “moderation in everything” is the path to success!

]]> http://www.tacticalphilanthropy.com/2009/05/do-goals-hurt-your-chance-of-success/comment-page-1#comment-6968 Curtis Ogden Wed, 20 May 2009 13:46:17 +0000 http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2009/05/do-goals-hurt-your-chance-of-success#comment-6968 Oops! Pasted the wrong link above. Should be http://www.cognitive-edge.com/blogs/dave/2009/05/the_occult_insignificance_of_m.php. Oops! Pasted the wrong link above. Should be http://www.cognitive-edge.com/blogs/dave/2009/05/the_occult_insignificance_of_m.php.

]]> http://www.tacticalphilanthropy.com/2009/05/do-goals-hurt-your-chance-of-success/comment-page-1#comment-6967 Curtis Ogden Wed, 20 May 2009 13:44:52 +0000 http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2009/05/do-goals-hurt-your-chance-of-success#comment-6967 Here, here! Goals and outcomes obsession can be quite a blight on the philanthropic and nonprofit landscape. While it makes sense to ask, "What are we aiming for?" it is too easy to get hung up on those goals at the exclusion of other opportunities or at the risk of creating other problems on the way to those goals (unintended and unobserved consequences). Seems there is a need to look more systemically at outcomes, across and beyond our individual/organizational efforts. Check out http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2009/05/do-goals-hurt-your-chance-of-succes. Thanks for the great post! Here, here! Goals and outcomes obsession can be quite a blight on the philanthropic and nonprofit landscape. While it makes sense to ask, “What are we aiming for?” it is too easy to get hung up on those goals at the exclusion of other opportunities or at the risk of creating other problems on the way to those goals (unintended and unobserved consequences). Seems there is a need to look more systemically at outcomes, across and beyond our individual/organizational efforts. Check out http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2009/05/do-goals-hurt-your-chance-of-succes. Thanks for the great post!

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