Daily Endeavor Blog

Set Smaller Goals, Get Bigger Results by Dan Heath & Chip Heath — In hard times, we retrench. We maintain. We certainly don’t stretch. Small goals break the status quo (Fast Company)

When Goal Setting Goes Bad Q&A with Max Bazerman — Good people can focus so much on reaching the stretch goal that they fail to realize how this has dumped other work on their co-workers, led the company to accept mortgages that are too risky, etc.

Reid Hoffman Tells Charlie Rose: “Every Individual Is Now An Entrepreneur.” by Leena Rao — Clear-eyed point of view: you’re indeed managing risk (TechCrunch)

How to Change the World: Guest Post: Memo from Kafka’s Castle and What Employers Want to See on Your Resume by Glen Kelman — How to re-think the resume (Guy Kawasaki’s blog)