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A New Discovery in Google Could Change The Way You Lead Your Team

As a manager or leader, how often have you set goals and plans with your team, coach them properly, only to find out that they could only do half of what you planned? Managers and leaders around the world have often asked this question: how can we lead our teams more effectively?  Can we get more things done? A new discovery in the way companies like Google and FaceBook run reveal that there is a better and more effective way to get things done: Never Set an Outcome. You see, you set a ‘goal’, like double sales this year, for your team. But what happens is an outcome, and there is no way you can control an outcome. In business many bosses set goal of "doubling sales in this year".  In fact what they are setting is an outcome.  Their goal should be on things that they can work on, like getting more customers, earning higher average dollar sale from each customers, coming up with new products, etc. Companies like Google, after setting goals, do not leave th