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Posts tagged Improvement Science

Goal Setting is Often an Act of Desperation, Part IV

For the past four months, I’ve been writing about organizational goal-setting. In Part I of the series, I proposed four conditions that organizations should understand prior to setting a goal. In Part II, I introduced the idea of “arbitrary and capricious” education goals as well as the first five of my 10 Key Lessons for Data Analysis. In Part III I rounded out the lessons with an introduction to lessons 6-10. In this installment, we’ll take a look at an applied example of the lessons in action.