{"id":7824,"date":"2019-04-09T21:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T21:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=7824"},"modified":"2019-04-09T21:00:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T21:00:24","slug":"why-hypotheses-beat-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/09\/why-hypotheses-beat-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Hypotheses Beat Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Not long ago, it became fashionable to embrace failure as a sign of a company\u2019s willingness to take risks. This trend lost favor as executives recognized that what they wanted was learning, not necessarily failure. Every failure can be attributed to a raft of missteps, and many failures do not automatically contribute to future success.<br \/>\nCertainly, if companies want to aggressively pursue learning, they must accept that failures will happen. But the practice of simply setting goals and then being nonchalant if they fail is inadequate.<br \/>\nInstead, companies should focus organizational energy on hypothesis generation and testing. Hypotheses force individuals to articulate in advance why they believe a given course of action will succeed. A failure then exposes an incorrect hypothesis \u2014 which can more reliably convert into organizational learning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/sloanreview.mit.edu\/article\/why-hypotheses-beat-goals\/?utm_source=pocket&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=pockethits\">Why Hypotheses Beat Goals<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not long ago, it became fashionable to embrace failure as a sign of a company\u2019s willingness to take risks. This trend lost favor as executives recognized that what they wanted was learning, not necessarily failure. Every failure can be attributed to a raft of missteps, and many failures do not automatically contribute to future success. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/09\/why-hypotheses-beat-goals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Hypotheses Beat Goals&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}