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A few weeks ago I took my car to the dealer for an oil change and the clerk promised it would be ready in about 1 ½ hours. Once the car was ready, he presented me with a questionnaire which asked, among other things, if the car was delivered within the promised time frame. The answer was yes, or course, but the promised time frame was 1 ½ hours, or about 1 hour more than it should really take. Sandbaggers.

Four years ago, after hurricane Wilma hit South Florida, FPL advised us that full restoration of power could take four weeks. Eighteen days later (ahead of schedule, of course) full power was restored. Sandbaggers.

Perhaps the ultimate sandbaggers are Wall Street guys, who insist they deserve bonuses in spite of piling up billions of dollars in losses (because if it weren’t for them the losses would be much greater, of course). Sandbaggers.

Setting low ball goals breeds a culture of complacency and underachievement. Setting two types of goals, regular (easy) and stretch (hard), is also counterproducti