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How many projects in businesses today are focused on building / implementing a solution without understanding why? Your problem isn't the lack of a solution.
An interesting talk from AI researcher Kenneth Stanley on his counter-intuitive discovery/realization that formal goals/objectives can block creativity.
Is the goal of a for-profit company to "make more money, now and in the future"? I suppose it depends on how you define the terms.
Why do businesses exist? What is their purpose? Can we identify just one thing? Steve Denning talks about Milton Friedman's statement that the sole purpose of corporations is to make money for its shareholders. The short form is that Friedman based his article on flawed logic.
Kevin Rutherford has taken me literally and has some ideas for defining and quantifying personal goals. He has an idea (untested) for a mechanism to define and quantify personal goals.