Business owners will often set individual goals to motivate employees and reach company objectives. Goals that are hard to reach are often more intriguing, as more work is required to fulfill them.

If you are an employed adult, you know that most organizations have written goals and objectives. That’s because goal-setting is a common practice in the workplace—and for good reason. Written goals ...

When Caroline Adams Miller learned about the science of goal setting, her professional and personal life changed forever. It was 2005, and Adams Miller was a student at the University of Pennsylvania ...

We invite research that interrogates goal setting through the lens of psychological science. We welcome diverse theoretical, empirical, and applied perspectives on how individuals envision, pursue, ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Over the past few decades, goal-setting has become a science—and sometimes, a cliché. Latham ...

Despite the popularity of goal setting, there is compelling evidence that regardless of good intentions and effort, people and organizations often fall short of achieving their goals, whether it be to ...

Well, it was going to be a "new year, new you." Then it was one thing after another getting in the way of your goals, and now January is coming to an end without you making so much as a dent in all ...