Goal-Setting Theory: Effective Strategies for Success
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Goal-Setting Theory: Effective Strategies for Success

Corrected by Emir Baycan · on When Notes Fly · 11 July 2026 · View published page ↗

Explore effective goal-setting strategies that ensure success beyond vague motivations.

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At Wells Fargo, specific cross-selling goals for branch employees produced millions of unauthorized account openings
+At Ford, an aggressive goal to build a subcompact car under a strict weight and cost ceiling contributed to the dangerous design of the Ford Pinto

Why this is better

The specific sentence named in this contribution was already correctly fixed to the Ford Pinto example. However, found and fixed the SAME Wells Fargo/2009-Ordonez-paper fabrication repeated in three additional locations: (1) the article's closing summary paragraph still said 'the failures of goal-setting at Enron and Wells Fargo' (fixed to 'Enron and Ford'), (2) the post excerpt independently said 'they also built Enron and Wells Fargo' (fixed to 'Enron and the Ford Pinto'), and (3) a FAQ answer explicitly attributed 'Wells Fargo's account-opening quotas' to the 2009 Ordonez et al. paper alongside the legitimate Enron and Ford Pinto examples (removed, since Wells Fargo's scandal broke in 2016, seven years after the paper). All three fixes verified clean on fresh re-fetch and the live rendered page.

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