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GREAT Goals : Why SMART Gives You Clarity, and GREAT Gives You Movement

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Overview

You already know how to write a SMART goal. So why do most of them still fail?

Not because they're unclear. Not because you lack ambition. Because SMART was only ever designed to do half the job.

For thirty years, David Blackmore has taught SMART goals in hospitality, retail and multi-site leadership - and watched them fail in exactly the same way, over and over. A leadership team leaves a strategy day energised, targets sharpened, everyone nodding. Six weeks later, nothing has moved. The goal was Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-bound. It just wasn't alive.

SMART tells you how to write a goal. It doesn't tell you how to drive one.

GREAT Goals is the framework built to close that gap - tested across fourteen-site hospitality groups, small businesses run on instinct and grit, and personal goals that had quietly stalled more than once. It gives you five elements that turn a static target into something your team actually runs:

  • GAME-PLAN - the discipline of "from X to Y by when," and the difference between a safe goal, a stretch goal and a breakthrough goal
  • REASON - why logic alone never sustains effort, and how to connect a target to something people actually care about
  • EMPATHY - the difference between compliance and genuine ownership, and why you cannot dictate belief
  • ACTION PLAN - how to find the critical few lead measures that actually move the number, instead of the twenty that don't
  • TRACKABLE - the weekly rhythm that turns tracking from a report into momentum

Built on real case studies from multi-site hospitality groups, SME manufacturers, retail chains, professional services firms and individuals, GREAT Goals doesn't ask you to abandon SMART. It shows you what SMART was always missing - and gives you a practical, repeatable system for making any goal, personal or professional, survive contact with a busy Tuesday.

If you've ever set a goal you believed in and watched it quietly disappear by February, this book is for you.

Perfect for: multi-site leaders, small business owners, and anyone who has ever written a perfectly good goal and still not achieved it.

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Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781065477808
  • ISBN-10: 1065477805
  • Publisher: Downsview Press
  • Publish Date: October 2026
  • Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.34 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.42 pounds
  • Page Count: 158

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