{
  "title": "In Lausanne, is setting a goal enough to guide work?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/leadership-lausanne-objectifs-precis-apprentissage-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-03-21",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "A specific goal can support performance. But the team must know how to make progress, and monitoring must not divert attention from the work itself.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Executive Leadership",
  "place": {
    "name": "Lausanne",
    "region": "Vaud",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Edwin A."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The mechanism that monitoring can disrupt",
      "point": "Avraham N."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "It is tempting to conclude that leaders should introduce more numerical targets and checkpoints."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence cannot prescribe",
      "point": "These studies provide neither a universal monitoring frequency nor an optimal level of difficulty for every team."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Lausanne",
      "point": "Within the “Leadership d’excellence” programme, a proposed exercise for a Lausanne team would be to select an uncertain project — medtech validation, technology transfer with a higher education institution, an international sporting event or a scale-up launch — and pair its performance target with an explicit learning goal."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Latham",
      "year": "2002",
      "source": "American Psychologist"
    },
    {
      "authors": "DeNisi",
      "year": "1996",
      "source": "Psychological Bulletin"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 450,
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  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation-leadership-excellence-lausanne",
    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/lausanne",
    "blog": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog"
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  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}