Stretch targets are garbage.

People set stretch targets in the hope that they will motivate a team to achieve better results than they otherwise would. In most situations, however, they don't work and actually create a set of second-order consequences.

This week we talk about 6 reasons why stretch targets don't work, and what you should be doing instead.

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