Research Question

When considering leadership goal setting, one must also consider how your personal goals align with the business' goals. In addition, it is essential to consider how your employee's goals align with the organizational vision. This resource will address motivation in the context of goal alignment between the leader, followers, and the organization.

This research is about understanding the roles personal purpose and goals play in the symbiotic relationship with their company's vision. To be able to understand personal purpose and goals it was important to minimize the other variables. Because it would be expected that high performers are already motivated and engaged, interviewing high performers allowed me to focus on the nature of personal purpose and goals without the added complexity of whether motivation and engagement exist. The research question for this study is: What are the roles of the personal purpose and goals of high performing leaders in symbiotic relationships with their company's higher purpose vision?

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