FUZZY GOALS

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PATTERN Category
  • STRATEGY
summary Use fuzzy goals to motivates the general direction of the work, without blinding the team to opportunities along the journey.
Argumentation In a paper titled “Radical innovation: crossing boundaries with interdisciplinary teams,” Cambridge researcher Alan Blackwell and colleagues identified fuzzy goals (they called it a pole-star vision) as an essential element of successful innovation. A fuzzy goal is one that “motivates the general direction of the work, without blinding the team to opportunities along the journey.”


Kuenkel, P. (2017) propose a new mindset : "Taking goals as transformative guidance shifts", ie going from : aspiring to reach targets defined as measurable stable future state or static target, to taking goals as temporarily binding guidance for achieving a dynamic balance in better fun-ctioning patterns while using metrics to conti-nuously learn how to further improve patterns.
References
  • Blackwell et al : Radical innovation: crossing boundaries with interdisciplinary teams,”
  • Kuenkel, P. (2017). A pattern approach to stewarding sustainability transformation How the 17th SDGs can become a starting point for transformative change. Collective Leadership studies volume.

http://wiki.collectiveleadership.com/images/c/c3/Collective_Leadership_Studies_Vol5_A_Pattern_Approach_to_Stewarding_Sustainability_Transformation.pdf
Linked patterns (Larger or smaller patterns)
  • MEANINGFULL AND ATTAINABLE GOALS
  • SHARED GOALS
  • REGULAR GOAL ASSESSMENTS
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