…to you about your career goals." Carol says, "My career goal is to take over the department by tricking you into a fatal accident, then telling everyone you're just working from home." The boss says, "That's not right." Carol says, "So you're saying I should set my goals low?"
Dogbert the CEO Dogbert says, "Ratbert you're my new VP of sales." Dogbert says, "Your job is to set impossible goals for the salespeople and punish them for failing." Ratbert says, "Yay! I always wanted to be a sadist!" Dogbert says, "Dreams do come true."
…people see me as a loser who achieves nothing." Wally says, "In reality I am a winner who knows how to set realistic goals." Dilbert says, "So you're sort of a genius." Wally says, "And yet my only goal was to have a pulse."
…says, "Um... did I just establish a new baseline expectation that will turn my job into a tragic death march?" The Boss says, "It's time to set some stretch goals." Asok says, "STUPID! STUPID! STUPID!"
…expectations." "If you thought it was possible for my to exceed my expectations, you would have set the goals higher." "So there are only two possibilities here." "Either you are incompetent at settinggoals..." "Or I attained the maximum possible achievement and I deserve the maximum raise." Which is…
"I wrote out my goals for the coming year." "I set them higher than I can achieve because our boss said it's good to have stretch goals." "Well, more for us."
