Why 3% of Harvard MBAs Make Ten Times as Much as the Other 97% Combined

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 at 3:09 pm

So, Why Do 3% of Harvard MBAs Make Ten Times as Much as the Other 97% Combined ?

The answer is a simple question:
“Have you set clear, written goals for your future and made plans to accomplish them?”
In 1979, interviewers asked new graduates from the Harvard’s MBA Program and found that :

- 84% had no specific goals at all
- 13% had goals but they were not committed to paper
- 3% had clear, written goals and plans to accomplish them

10 years later, the 13% of the class who had goals were earning, on average, twice as much as the 84 percent who had no goals at all.
Even more staggering, the 3% that had written goals earned 10 times more than the 97% of their class!!
Coincidence? I think not!

(Source: from the book What They Don’t Teach You in the Harvard Business School, by Mark McCormack)

Take the time to write down your goals. If they’re not written down, they are just dreams. When you write things down, it sets off a chain of events that will change your life. I am a firm believer of writing.

Don’t have the time to write them down?

If you don’t have time to write down your goals, where are you going to find the time to accomplish them? Food for thought