As a fourth team member listening to the foregoing exchange, formulate three suggestions that would help Hy, improve his approach to goal formation and presentation. How well motivated do you think the team will be if they share Fiona’s view of Hy’s goals? What are the possible ramifications of supplying management with overly optimistic goals? Write one paragraph devoted to short-term effects and another one discussing the long-term effects of setting unrealistically high goals.

“Here’s what I think we can accomplish in the next five weeks,” says Hy, the leader of your systems analysis team, as he confidently pulls out a schedule listing each team member’s name alongside a list of short-term goals. Just a week ago your systems analysis team went through an intense meeting on expediting their project schedule for the Kitchener, Ontario, Redwings, a hockey organization whose management is pressuring you to produce a prototype. The three other members of the team look at the chart in surprise. Finally, one of the members, Rip, speaks: “I’m in shock. We each have so much to do as it is, and now this.”