News Finding: You end up splitting your focus over many tasks, losing focus, lowering the quality of your work and taking longer to hit your goals.
Paper Finding: study of goals and feedback was not included in this analysis because they acknowledged that their goals-only group actually may have received informal feedback.
News Context: Actually, the most successful people are very patient and avoid juggling many things. You end up splitting your focus over many tasks, losing focus, lowering the quality of your work and taking longer to hit your goals. The 8 percent of people who nail down their goals are smart enough to work on several smaller chunks to complete a big goal.
Paper Context: These findings led Erez to conclude that KR is necessary for goals to affect performance. study of goals and feedback was not included in this analysis because they acknowledged that their goals-only group actually may have received informal feedback. In this study, as in the one by Frost and Mahoney (1976, Task A) , providing explicit or frequent feedback clearly facilitated performance.