{
  "title": "Demanding targets: what leaders need to preserve",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/objectifs-exigeants-ce-que-le-leader-doit-preserver-a-sion-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-11-03",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Setting a specific target can improve performance. It does not guarantee that the team will preserve what the metric leaves out.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Executive Leadership",
  "place": {
    "name": "Sion",
    "region": "Valais",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Edwin A."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The mechanism that leaves part of the work out of view",
      "point": "Lisa D."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The hasty conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that specific targets should be replaced with general intentions."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The limits of the evidence and of current practice",
      "point": "These publications do not establish an optimal level of difficulty applicable across a hydropower operation, a healthcare unit and a tourism business."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Sion",
      "point": "In Sion, a proposed exercise within “Leadership d'excellence” could pair each throughput or turnaround target with a non-negotiable quality criterion: maintenance checks in hydropower, complete handovers in healthcare, batch checks in wine production or verification of safety instructions in Alpine tourism."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Latham",
      "year": "2002",
      "source": "American Psychologist"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Bazerman",
      "year": "2009",
      "source": "Academy of Management Perspectives"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 443,
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  "relatedPages": {
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  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
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