Tickers Tackles Targets

When the management of an organisation start setting targets, it sends out a clear message.

We have no idea what to do for the best, so instead, we're going to compile a wish list.

The attraction, for incompetent managements, is that they make them appear to be doing something, whilst at the same time, implying that things will improve.

In reality, at best, but not very likely, it'll marginally improve performance. More probably, it will either make no difference, demoralise the workforce, or, in the worst case scenario, cause performance to drop as a consequence of pitching the target too low. Employees know that the next target will be set based on this periods performance so want to have something in reserve.

I doubt dangling a carrot on the end of a piece of string in front of a donkey would fool it for long, so why would management think it would work on us.