An Agile HR approach to goal setting that accounts for short term tendency to overestimate and long term tendancy to underestimate

Humans are good at underestimating the progress that can be made in the long term but overestimating progress that will be made in the short term.
How do you set goals that will motivate short term achievement without setting people up to fail, whilst not being too lax so that long term progress is stymied?
We think we have an approach that creates continuous striving to do better whilst still being psychologically safe by avoiding over-commitment, [More]

The one place where diversity is not what you should be aiming for

Diversity is a hot topic around the boardroom table at the moment, Should there be quotas for female leaders, what about the gender pay gap, how can we do the right thing by our minorities, and do we have the diversity of thought to drive innovation? These are all good questions for management to spend time on, but in one key area diversity is to the detriment of culture and until that area is tackled the rest may not matter. [More]