A 1979 study asked Harvard MBA graduates the following question:
“Have you set clear, written goals for your future and made plans to accomplish them?”
The study found that:
~ Only 3% of the students had written goals and plan
~ 13% had goals but they weren’t in writing
~ 84% had no goals at all
Ten years later the same group of students were interviewed and the results were fascinating...
A recent study looked at the way that judges grant parole to prisoners and the factors impacting these decisions.
What the study found was that when faced with prisoners doing time for the same crime judges were more likely to rule in favour of parole in the morning.
In the morning judges ruled in favor of parole 70% of the time, but as the day wore on, the favourable ruling dropped to zero.