April 06,2021

Setting big goals without looking absurd

John Hambacher

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You can completely disengage a team by setting goal. That like? Okay, I'm never going to achieve this. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go look for a rotational role. Um, there are ways to step into something like that where maybe you don't set the goal immediately, but you kick off. Okay? I want us to do a brainstorm or teams go off. Come back in two weeks with two pages on your best ideas for this or that revolutionary change, you could do a dog and pony show competition. You could, um you know, take just that one team and not lock them in a room. But basically, we're meeting in a week. Come to me with your best thinking on that, and so you don't have to set the goal right at the start. You can kind of iterate to that a little bit and sort of see what's possible. And if the product thinking, Actually, you can back up setting that bold at the goal. Although sometimes by needs. You know, I've seen top down goals from very high up in Amazon. We have to do this. Here's the objective will get it.

Thanks,
George