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Stretched, not stressed

Stretched, not stressed

From the course: Moving Past Change Fatigue to the Growth Edge

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Stretched, not stressed

- Think about when you were a kid. Do you remember the children whose parents insisted that they get straight A's in school? Maybe you were one of those kids. That's a lot of stress to put out a child, to be perfect on every report card, but that's pretty much what we expect people to do in our organizations. We demand that people perform perfectly and hit their goals 100% of the time. To be disruptive, we need to change our definition of success, so that it stretches our team without stressing them. When we insist on perfection, it's a sure way for people to either set goals that are easily achievable or get really stressed out about hitting a really hard goal. Disruption isn't about hitting an achievable goal. It's about building sustainable capabilities that result in exponential change. It's about what you do to get closer to the stretch goal, not about achieving it. Here's how to do it. First, we set your goal…

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