Talk:Goal (management)
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The thrust of this argument that "businesses have the single goal of making more money" seems a bit disingenuous. Fine, the goal is to make money but then the goal breaks down into sub-goals which, in turn, can be pursued in myriad ways. Surely goal management must be about suitable sub-goals and about how to organize these various sub-goals.
EmRick 18:54, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] Changed the defination of Goal (Management)
Changed the definition of Goal management to "A goal is a desired state of affairs of a person or of a system. For any successful business system, it means deriving profits by making the best quality of goods or the best quality of services available to the end user (customer) at the best possible cost."
Rephrased the following line "making goods or services available to the end user (customer) at the best possible cost." to "marking the best quality of goods or the best quality of services"
CEO 06:31, 24 Oct 2005 (IST)
[edit] A few comments
I think that this article reads more like a self-help seminar than an encyclopedic article and uses "you" in reference to the reader, which is a no-no, right? --CallmeNiel 03:25, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
Agree. Completely. --Breadandcheese 08:18, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Another comment from the "Counterexamples" section... the article states "At that time, New York was one of the world's top cities". Has the status of NYC wrt the music industry in the United States changed since 1980?Thedukeofno 11:27, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
- i changed some parts accordingly. the counterexamples statements were prone to misunderstanding and largely unmotivated. -- Kku 12:17, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Improvement Drive
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[edit] The function of business is different from the ethics of good business
I agree with all the comments above. The judgement must therefore be that this is far from an unbiased piece on goals and planning. Freedman and Hayek define the goal of a business most narrowly as: being to maximize profit, period! - all else being just details. The other (liberal) side feels that business, from the outset, being a civilized and human endeavour has much broader responsibilities (vis J.K. Galbraith et al).
Because the market behaves more as an overdamped oscillator (in terms of the consumer response to punish bad practices) and because knowledge is imperfect (esp. for consumers), to let it regulate itself is a worthless ostrich like behavior. Thus I obviously lean towards the left (Galbraith). I believe a business has much more responsibility beyond simple maximizing of profit (making money).
I agree that this is more a self-help piece but for sure it is not an unbiased treatment of goal setting in management etc. and should be classified and handled accordingly.
--66.194.118.10 21:18, 3 May 2006 (UTC)dayorkmd
[edit] removed external links section
The external links section contained a bunch of commercial and otherwise low quality links, I removed the entire section. If it turns out that one or possibly two of them were worth keeping, they could be put back, if someone who is not affiliated with these sites wants to put them back in the article. --Xyzzyplugh 02:09, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
