All Cypress employees have goals, which, in theory, make them no different from employees at most other companies. What does make our people different is that every week they participate with their manager in setting their own goals, commit to achieving them by a specific date, enter them into a database, and report whether or not they completed their own goals. The Cypress computerized Goals System is an important part of our managerial infrastructure. It provides a detailed guide to the future and an objective record of the past. It also serves as an excellent communication tool for ongoing projects. In any given week, thousands of goals in the database come due. Our ability to meet our own goals ultimately will determine the success or failure of Cypress. Individual goals files are the means by which goals for each employee are combined into one database. There are both Manager goals files and Project goals files.