I’ve never been a big fan of New Year’s resolutions as the once-per-year goal settings usually come with unrealistic targets. Without reasonable goals, resolutions take a back seat to day-to-day realities. In fact, a recent Marist poll shows half of Americans make resolutions but only about 1/3 of those who do keep them for longer than a few days.
Despite this, in the spirit of the season, here are my own 10 resolutions:
- Less BlackBerry reading; more blackberry eating
- Avoid 2010 meaning I traveled to 20 cities on 10 airlines
- Leverage twitter without becoming a twit
- Never use the phrase XXX2.0, especially Web2.0
- Leave time for writing. For fun. On non-work subjects.
- Read the Enterprise Irregulars more regularly
- Make sure my blog isn’t Barely Legible Officious Garbage
- A moratorium on rubber chicken dinners at conferences
- Make sure that telepresence isn’t my permanent presence
- And my most important New Year’s resolution: the end of resolutions
Happy New Year.
I had a chuckle at #4. It’s quite overdone these days, isn’t it?
Julie T.
http://www.jadcc.com/blog
Jonathan,
Great list. Here is one more.
11. Clarify the confusion that Performance Management is not narrow (just HR’s employee appraisals or a CFO initiative) but is very broad and about enterprise-wide performance improvement.
Gary
Number 10 is the best. I made that resolution ~15 years ago and it’s the only one I ever kept.