Why do some employees do better than others? According to goal-setting theory, one reason is that they have better, clearer goals. These goals guide their behavior towards better workplace output.

When a well-thought-out plan isn’t succeeding, what should the response be? Abandon the plan entirely? Hope that it just needs more time to work? Or get to grips with why it’s not working and make ...

The United Nations issued the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 as a framework for organizing discussion and tracking progress toward global sustainability. The color of the map reflects ...

Imagine the world in 2030, fully inclusive of persons with disabilities! During the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20, Member States agreed to launch a process to ...

As we head into the new year, many people are setting goals. But how many of those goals will actually be realized? A 2023 Forbes Health survey uncovered some insights into that question. Specifically ...

Seventeen is a lot. It is surely the sign of a United Nations insider that they can remember the names and numbers (and even the associated colours) of each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals ...

In 2012, world leaders at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro began to discuss a set of universal goals that would meet the environmental, political and economic ...

The United Nations’ ambitious development agenda aims to protect people and the planet via seventeen goals. But experts say governments aren’t doing enough to implement them. In 2015, the UN General ...