Don’t believe everything you read online

A fact to realize the digital world around us!

In my previous articles about Leadership (My Lessons Learn on Virtual Leadership & How do I define my Leadership style), I used a fact about Goal Setting effectiveness based on Goal Research of Dominican University of California. To summarize it:

The power of goal setting — Research by Dominican University College — where “Groups written Goals” archived significantly more than “Groups unwritten Goals” is 50% (😍) (6.44 / 4.28 in the report) [1].

Goals Research Summary by Dominican University [1]

The interesting thing here is when I researched about Goal Setting effectiveness before I found some Dominican’s research above like

Harvard Business School Research about Goal Setting

Stop Wasting Your Time and Start Doing What Matters Most Book [2]

We can see the source from the book ‘What They Don’t Teach You in the Harvard Business School’ by Mark McCormack and when I tried to find the fact in McCormack’s book, I didn’t find those facts!

Another book — Designer of Reality Guidebook — with the same facts [4]

Besides it, the basis you can found a lot on Google:

Almost said the source from McCormack’s book, a bit said from Yale’s 1953 goal study!

Yale’s 1953 goal study

Yale University Library on 1953 goal study [4]

So we have no source about those facts on goal setting above. I tried more to find out the goal-setting study until I read Sid Savara’s article, where he sends the message like my article: “Don’t believe everything you read online… until you find out where is it from and have enough theoretical point” [5].

From his article, I found the research which using in my article about goal setting of Dominican University [1].

In the End,

3 points in my articles:

Don’t believe everything you read online even a book… until you find out where is it from and have enough theoretical point
Building yourself ‘Control and Feedback system’
“In God we trust, all others must bring data”