Research shows backup plans may keep you from achieving your goal

Thursday, August 11, 2016 - 15:31 in Psychology & Sociology

When it comes to setting organizational and personal goals, making a backup plan has been seen as a sensible way to deal with uncertainty — to be prepared if things don’t go as expected. However, new research from the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison challenges that conventional wisdom and finds that […]

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