Thank you for your visit and your comments.

Your observations go right to the heart of what I’m getting at here: the discussion of goals is really a Trojan Horse designed to advance my critique of leadership as it is currently understood, taught and, all-too-often practiced.

I think looking at how goals are generated, propagate throughout and organization, and how they effect it is a good way to see what is really happening in the leadership environment - including at where that leadership is really coming from.

Thanks for your visit, your illuminating thoughts on the topic here, and of course for your own fascinating work and writing.

Another question is if they come from a “leader” or a “leadership team”. We’ve had mandates imposed from above that quite obviously have had the input from various functional areas of the business. Then we’ve had the ones that the leader seemed to come up with on his own, in some way ignoring other considerations. The first ones have generated a great deal more support and made more sense, even if the individuals carrying them out don’t always agree with them.