How Focusing on Outcomes Impacts a Work

Reflection: Outcomes vs. Process
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Reflection: Outcomes vs. Process
The reading explores the impact of focusing on outcomes vs. process for both investors and sports fans. The author highlights that most people focus on the outcomes rather than the process. Concentrating on outcomes is unhealthy because it fails to choose the appropriate process. Therefore, the article primarily offers the detrimental nature of being outcome-focused compared to the effectiveness of being process-oriented. According to the author, individuals that fail to focus on the process and register impressive outcomes should understand that it is out of luck that they achieved success. Therefore, he backs a good process as an essential strategy to recording the desired results.
I believe that the author chose to address an important topic that many scholars have ignored for a long time. The article provides significant insights which can apply to both the personal and professional spheres of individuals that pursue success. It is a wake-up call for every individual and organization to adopt the advice that implementing a good and effective process would guarantee good results. Therefore, individuals or organizations that emphasize outcomes will fail terribly in their operations and aims.
Focusing on outcomes is a strategy that will cause me to fail. First, for any individual who has ever succeeded because of focusing on loss, only pure luck can be used to explain their success. If I focus on the outcomes, there is the likelihood that I will forget the ...