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Define your strategic project goals

Define your strategic project goals

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Define your strategic project goals

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- Great leaders understand that people can only be successful if they have good goals. Even Aristotle who gave this advice. "First, have a definite clear, practical, ideal: a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends: wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end." Every project needs to have a clearly defined set of goals. And in this video, we'll talk about a simple system for creating effective goals for your projects. My favorite approach to creating project goals comes from an article by George Duran in the November 1981 issue of Management Review. He introduced the idea of using SMART goals. To start with, a goal must be specific. People need to understand and agree on exactly what you're trying to accomplish. Depending on the project or the stage in your project, they may not agree on how it will get done, but the goal does need to make clear what should…

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