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In "OOPS! 13 Management Practices that Waste Time and Money (and what to do instead)," workplace behavior expert Aubrey Daniels reveals why common business practices—such as annual bonuses, automatic pay raises, and layoffs—actually reward bad behavior.

 In this excerpt, Daniels examines the problem with stretch goals.

 Probably nothing I have said in seminars and my books upsets more managers than my saying that stretch goals are an ineffective management practice, and, as such, a waste of time and money. This flies in the face of their own personal experience, as they have been successful in getting performance improvement by challenging employees to "stretch themselves." In fact, most managers have had the experience of having employees perform above the initial goal, even if they didn't reach the stretch goal. So what is the problem?

 While there is a large amount of anecdotal evidence that stretch goals work, the research is far from conclusive. As a matter of fact, one study of stretch goals found that performance decreased over time, as individuals repeatedly experienced failure in their attempts to achieve assigned goals. This is bound to happen when using "stretch goals" since they are defined by researchers as those that are attained less than 10 percent of the time.

 Why would a manager set a goal employees will fail to reach 90 percent of the time? On the face of it, it makes no sense. The answer, of course, is that they mistakenly believe it will motivate employees to achieve more than they would by only setting reasonable goals. It doesn't. What most managers don't understand is that goals are motivating to people only when they have received positive reinforcement for reaching them in the past. Stretch goals almost always are driven by negative reinforcement—not by design, but because most managers don't know the difference between positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement.

 One reason stretch goals are set is that setting such goals often is sustained by the popular corporate culture that believes the really hard-nosed and great managers always demand the stretch and "their teams will reach for those impossible goals or else." The fact is that while employees may reach and may succeed on occasion, it is not in the setting of the goal but in the day-to-day actions of the manager that success is achieved.

 There are better ways to reach what may appear to be the impossible that don't involve stretch goals at all. There is considerable confusion about the differences between stretch goals, innovation, and creativity. If you are a long way from where you need to be, but have a process where you know what you ask is possible—either because others in the organization are performing at where you need to be, or your competitors who are using the same process and/or equipment that you are, are performing where you need to be—goal setting is appropriate.

 On the other hand, if you need improvement levels that are beyond the capability of the current process, then you need creativity or innovation. It is common for managers to use stretch goals when they need creativity and innovation. Creativity should be separated from goal setting since they involve separate and incompatible behavioral processes. Creativity typically requires an abolition of existing ways of doing something so novel ideas can emerge. Goal setting involves behavior shaping.

 Shaping involves the positive reinforcement of small improvements on the way to a final goal. When trying to improve on an existing process, incremental goals work best—actually, the smaller the better, as small improvement targets provide more opportunities for positive reinforcement, which increases motivation. Goal setting is best used in situations where working more efficiently will achieve the desired outcome.

 If employees are working as hard as they can and cannot reach the desired or necessary performance level, creativity is required. Creativity is by definition "out-of-the-box thinking" and often involves a radical departure from an existing process. In the vernacular, it usually is called "working smarter." Getting people to work smarter requires lots of reinforcement for generating ideas, and a high tolerance by managers for testing ideas that don't work. Properly done, there is much positive reinforcement to be found in working to discover novel approaches to routine processes.

 What makes stretch goals an even more wasteful practice is when managers reward employees even when they did not reach the goal, but worked hard and were "close." What this communicates, whether intended or not, is that reaching the goal is not all that important. Behavior is more important than results. It is always appropriate to provide positive reinforcement for an increase in goal-directed behavior. This should be done on a day-to-day basis. However, giving the reinforcement and rewards for reaching the goal is not appropriate even though employees barely missed it.

 Does this mean we should not have lofty goals, or settle for something less than the best? Absolutely not! We want our organization to be the best in every way. The question is not whether we should have goals and standards, the issue is how to get there, and how to continue to make improvements.

 Stretch goals are based on the faulty assumption that you have to pull performance out of people, and if you don't continue to challenge them, they will settle for something less than they are capable of doing. Most managers have never had the thrill of setting goals where people have blown them away—reaching a goal in a fraction of the time set for the accomplishment, or accomplishing two to three times the goal amount. There are much more effective ways to motivate people to high levels of performance and achievement than by using stretch goals.

 How to Make Goals Work for You
 Contrary to popular opinion, the best mistake in setting a goal is to set it too low. By setting it low, you increase the probability of success. By rewarding goal attainment, you increase the motivation to set and achieve subsequent goals. Success breeds success. In the words of the cognitive researchers, such conditions produce self-efficacy and commitment.

 Incremental goals combined with graphic feedback and frequent positive reinforcement will not only produce better results but will create an environment where people will have fun accomplishing them. What more could you ask for?

 Daniels and Laipple have worked with many leading companies, including Roche, Aflac, and Daimler Truck Financial, to create behavior-based sales systems that help sales managers exceed sales numbers, faster, with fewer people, and with less long-term effort. Daniels has appeared on ABC News and CNN and has been featured in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. For his take on the latest management trends news, please visit his blog at www.aubreydanielsblog.com.


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Did Odin inspire the Santa Claus legend?
I've been meaning to get back to the "Ask Me About Odin" questions, since I have a few of them saved up. I spent most of November writing a book (which I am now about 40,000 words into--probably about halfway through the first draft) at the same time as I was trying to keep my little Etsy business going. Sadly, this didn't leave a lot of time for blogging. Things are still crazy-busy around here (now, after really awesome sales throughout the month of November, I need to work on getting some inventory back in my shop again, plus I am taking two online courses--more about that in another post, perhaps). But this landed in my inbox this morning and I figured, why not write a little something seasonal today?
"I keep hearing from different sources that Odin is the inspiration for Santa Claus, but I hear the same thing about Thor too. Which, if either, is it?"
As some long-time readers of my blog are probably aware, I learn heavily towards the "Yes, Odin inspired Santa!" side of this question, but that's at least partly because my first memory of Him, when I was eight years old, involved seeing Him as Santa Claus (okay, a somewhat sinister version of Santa Claus) leading the Wild Hunt. There is a lot of evidence that Odin's role as Wild Hunter may have either directly or indirectly fed into the Santa myth, as the Germanic tribal peoples as well as the pagan Scandinavians believed the Wild Hunt swept through the skies in order to drive away the evil spirits of winter, thus ensuring fertility for the following year's crops. Yup, you heard me right: as scary as the Wild Hunt is, they're essentially the good guys. And if that idea doesn't frighten you, it should. This is the true gift the Wild Hunt and Odin (and thus Santa Claus, if you believe they're one and the same) bring to us at Yule, and our ancestors knew it. When They're doing Their job correctly, you never even have to find out what They saved you from.
There is also a fair amount of evidence that our current Santa myth may have been at least partly influenced by Thor, who is thought to spend the winter slaying as many hostile frost giants as possible–"hostile" meaning those who are a direct threat either to Asgard (home of the Northern gods) or to mankind. Thor rides through the skies in a chariot pulled by two goats (which are at least horned ruminants, if not quite reindeer), His color is red (unlike Odin's which is blar, a Norse word usually translated as blue/black or grey, the color of death), and He is known for being somewhat more jolly of temperament than His father; all of these facts undoubtedly played into our current Santa myth. I have also heard some bids for Freyr as Santa, probably because of His lordship of the elves paralleling Santa's army of elven toy makers.
When you get right down to it, none of the Scandinavian gods match up with Santa in every detail, probably because Santa is (in my belief, anyway) more of an amalgam of various gods and spirits, as well as one Christian saint–although I do believe any of the three gods mentioned above (and probably Others as well) can wear the Santa "mask" when They see fit.
So, where is the evidence connecting Odin with Santa, specifically? Well, the trail I myself followed (at the age of eight, roughly) is this: Santa as he is so widely known today—the Santa of greeting cards and shopping malls, the jolly old fat elf in his red suit trimmed in white fur—is a fairly recent invention, only going back to the late 1800s, when a Harper's Weekly cover and a Coca Cola ad popularized his current appearance. Before that, when his lore was first brought to this country by Dutch immigrants, he had been depicted as an old, bearded Dutch sailor with a pipe, a green winter coat, and a wide-brimmed hat (bearing, for me, echoes of Odin's famous floppy-brimmed hat). This Dutch version of Santa was known as Sinterklaas and he traveled across the world to visit boys and girls on a white horse instead of in a sleigh pulled by eight reindeer. He was attended by a servant known as Black Peter, or Zwart Piet, who scouted out the area and prepared the way for his arrival, and also did the dirty work of delivering the presents and punishing any naughty children by beating them with a switch.
Sinterklaas was, in turn, based on Saint Nicholas, a 3rd century saint with a penchant for miracle-working and secret gift-giving. On December 6th, his feast day, Dutch children left carrots and oats in their shoes by the fireplace as an offering to Saint Nicholas' horse, and in the morning they would find the carrots and oats replaced by candy and presents. St. Nicholas made quite the impressive figure sitting astride his white horse, with his high bishop's miter and fur-trimmed red robes; and yet sometimes, instead of the bright cherry-red we would associate with Santa Claus, his robes were depicted as a darker, blood red, or purple, or blue.
And, the reasoning goes, St. Nicholas was in turn based on Odin–or was, at least, the saint who replaced him in Scandinavian countries during the Christianization of Europe. Picture Him as a lean, robust silver-bearded figure in dark blue and grey, His cloak flying out behind Him as He rides, His floppy-brimmed hat pulled down to cover His missing eye, the one remaining eye burning like a blue supernova. Of course, instead of a white horse, He rides a grey eight-legged horse, Sleipnir (whose eight leggedness perhaps fed into the idea that Santa's sleigh was pulled by eight reindeer), and instead of Black Peter, He is of course accompanied by his two ravens and two great wolves. We can keep the elves in the story (after all, there are plenty of elves and fae in the Wild Hunt), and we can add in a hoard of ghostly warriors on ghostly mounts, a slew of other indescribable monstrous creatures, a bevy of ghostly woman clad in white (the Valkyries, or corpse goddesses), and a pack of red-eyed black hounds. yipping and baying as they race along after the wolves through the storm-torn winter skies.
Quite the picture, isn't it? Merry Christmas!
A few links to check out for more information/entertainment on this topic:
Irrefutable Proof that Santa is Odin
Wikipedia's Santa Claus article
He Sees You When You're Sleeping (a story by yours truly)
Image: Sinterklaas_by_Nhaar. Additional images for this post can be found on my blog.
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I don't think you are using Backtrack 4 R2.
Code:root@bt:~# uname -a Linux bt 184.108.40.206 #1 SMP Sun Nov 14 06:32:36 EST 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
Dear Users,
good morning all!.
After a lot of time spent to make my Ralink RT3090 working correctly on my Backtrack final rel (tks sickness) persistent i'm facing a strange problem regarding injection.
I'm practicing with aircrack-ng suite and I'm totally n00b with Linux...pls bare with me.
Issues came when I try to verify ability to inject packet.
Some information about the scenario
uname -a
Linux bt 188.8.131.52 #1 SMP Tue Dec 1 21:51:08 EST 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
lshw -C network
description: Wireless interface
product: RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
vendor: RaLink
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: ra0
version: 00
serial: e0:2a:82:59:ee:80
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list logical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=RALINK WLAN driverversion=220.127.116.11 latency=0 module=rt3090sta wireless=Ralink STA
airmon-ng start ra0
Found 1 processes that could cause trouble.
If airodump-ng, aireplay-ng or airtun-ng stops working after
a short period of time, you may want to kill (some of) them!
PID Name
6020 dhclient3
Interface Chipset Driver
ra0 Ralink 2560 PCI rt2500 (monitor mode enabled)
Am I correct to thinking that there is something wrong regarding Chipset and Kernel module?
At the beginning the original rt25xx driver shipped with BT4 R2 was not working at all that s why I removed it and installed RT3090.
iw reg get
nl80211 not found.
I tried to set different country codes but no solutions.
aireplay-ng -9 ra0
16:08:43 Trying broadcast probe requests...
16:08:45 No Answer...
16:08:45 Found 7 APs
16:08:45 Trying directed probe requests...etc...
But there is no way to inject packet.
Is there any suggestions you will provide me in order to solve this "enpasse".
Thanks in advance for any support
Last edited by NiklauS; 05-01-2011 at 12:47 PM.
I don't think you are using Backtrack 4 R2.
Code:root@bt:~# uname -a Linux bt 188.8.131.52 #1 SMP Sun Nov 14 06:32:36 EST 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
Back|track giving machine guns to monkeys since 2007 !
Do not read the Wiki, most your questions will not be answered there !
Do not take a look at the: Forum Rules !
Sorry for the offtopic,but could you share how exactly did u make the rt3090 to work? I tried like 5 different guides on the web and neither worked :x
Hi sickness,
thank you for your replay. You re right: Im currently using BT4 final release...
Have u an opinion, based upon your experience, regarding troubles described below (injection and patching rt3090)
Tks in advance for any support


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A Lakewood business couple will have to wait until next month to find out if their proposed 7-Eleven will be allowed to sell alcohol or face limits such as only beer and wine sales and having to hire a security guard.
On Tuesday night, the City Council held off on making a decision and set a public hearing on the issue for Sept. 25.
Violit and Emeil Kamel, the franchise owner, originally requested a permit to sell distilled spirits, beer and wine at the 7-Eleven, which would be located at 4905 Bellflower Blvd., the northwest corner of Bellflower and Del Amo boulevards.
In May, the City's Planning and Environment Commission denied that request, but approved the sale of beer and wine, which is consistent with the beer-and-wine-only permits the city previously approved for 7-Elevens.
The commission also recommended, as suggested by the Lakewood sheriff's station, the business hire a security guard to work from noon to 4 p.m. because of its proximity to a school and install a 16-state-of-the-art security camera system with facial and license plate recognition abilities.
- Phillip Zonkel