ORGN 3025 FINAL UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. At what point do people start addressing their chronic lateness?
Answer:
People start to take action once it is about to cost them a heavy price or already has
Question:
2. What are the general steps recommended for curing lateness?
Answer:
First, identifying the reason that people are late. Second targeting specific places in their schedule, identify
when you are often running late and focus on it. It is also recommended to start with smaller goals before
applying this strategy to larger ones.
Question:
3. Why is so tough to stop behaviors like lateness?
Answer:
it has the same kind of intractable stickiness as other recurring habits like eating junk food or overspending
Question:
4. Why are people chronically late?
Answer:
Perfectionist - late because they won't leave the house until everything from their appearance to a project is
flawless Crisis maker - thrives off pressure and adrenaline of the time constraint in order to be productive
Defier - late as a means of rebelling against social constructs or authority telling them what to do Dreamer
- someone that lives in a fantasy world and thinks time might work different for them. Or underestimates
travel time and attempts to fit many tasks in an unrealistic window
Question:
5. What is procrastination and why does it cause anxiety?
Answer:
Derived from the Latin word meaning "to put off for tomorrow." Samuel Johnson described it as "one of
the general weaknesses that prevail to a greater or less degree in every mind." Anxiety about it has become
a serious problem in the early modern era.
Question:
6. What is akrasia?
Answer:
Doing something against one's own better judgment. Procrastination is a powerful example of this
Question:
7. What is hyperbolic discounting?
, Answer:
Able to make rational choices when they are thinking about the future, but as the present gets closer,
short-term considerations overwhelm long term goals
Question:
8. What is goal setting?
Answer:
A formal process of defining outcomes worth achieving
Question:
9. What are critical goals?
Answer:
Essential to your success. They need to be accomplished in order for your business to continue running.
Question:
10. What are enabling goals?
Answer:
They create a more desirable business condition or take advantage of a business opportunity. They are
important but fill a long term rather than an immediate need.
Question:
11. What are "nice to have" goals?
Answer:
Make improvements that enhance your business. Usually involve making projects faster, easier or more
pleasant.
Question:
12. What characteristics should goal setting include?
Answer:
- Written down
- Time framed
- Measurable
- Important
- Aligned with organizational strategy
- Challenging yet achievable
Question:
13. What would the author say about urgent day to day matters getting in the way of critical goals?
Answer:
You can burn up most of your time on the urgent matters that must be done today even though these
activities may do little to advance your goals.
Question:
14. What are the three level goals that all employees should be able to communicate?
Answer:
Company, unit and individual
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. At what point do people start addressing their chronic lateness?
Answer:
People start to take action once it is about to cost them a heavy price or already has
Question:
2. What are the general steps recommended for curing lateness?
Answer:
First, identifying the reason that people are late. Second targeting specific places in their schedule, identify
when you are often running late and focus on it. It is also recommended to start with smaller goals before
applying this strategy to larger ones.
Question:
3. Why is so tough to stop behaviors like lateness?
Answer:
it has the same kind of intractable stickiness as other recurring habits like eating junk food or overspending
Question:
4. Why are people chronically late?
Answer:
Perfectionist - late because they won't leave the house until everything from their appearance to a project is
flawless Crisis maker - thrives off pressure and adrenaline of the time constraint in order to be productive
Defier - late as a means of rebelling against social constructs or authority telling them what to do Dreamer
- someone that lives in a fantasy world and thinks time might work different for them. Or underestimates
travel time and attempts to fit many tasks in an unrealistic window
Question:
5. What is procrastination and why does it cause anxiety?
Answer:
Derived from the Latin word meaning "to put off for tomorrow." Samuel Johnson described it as "one of
the general weaknesses that prevail to a greater or less degree in every mind." Anxiety about it has become
a serious problem in the early modern era.
Question:
6. What is akrasia?
Answer:
Doing something against one's own better judgment. Procrastination is a powerful example of this
Question:
7. What is hyperbolic discounting?
, Answer:
Able to make rational choices when they are thinking about the future, but as the present gets closer,
short-term considerations overwhelm long term goals
Question:
8. What is goal setting?
Answer:
A formal process of defining outcomes worth achieving
Question:
9. What are critical goals?
Answer:
Essential to your success. They need to be accomplished in order for your business to continue running.
Question:
10. What are enabling goals?
Answer:
They create a more desirable business condition or take advantage of a business opportunity. They are
important but fill a long term rather than an immediate need.
Question:
11. What are "nice to have" goals?
Answer:
Make improvements that enhance your business. Usually involve making projects faster, easier or more
pleasant.
Question:
12. What characteristics should goal setting include?
Answer:
- Written down
- Time framed
- Measurable
- Important
- Aligned with organizational strategy
- Challenging yet achievable
Question:
13. What would the author say about urgent day to day matters getting in the way of critical goals?
Answer:
You can burn up most of your time on the urgent matters that must be done today even though these
activities may do little to advance your goals.
Question:
14. What are the three level goals that all employees should be able to communicate?
Answer:
Company, unit and individual
