Hitting Goals vs. Delivering the Vision

In this lesson we discuss how a leader can receive good reviews while the business they run fails to reach its vision. We also look at the tension between goals that protect your pay and goals that actually matter.

• Prime Gaming and the Amazon App Store hit their interim goals but never came close to the bigger vision.
• Big companies often confuse hitting goals with doing something valuable, which leaves “zombie products” that nobody wants to shut down.
• For your own review you want goals you know you can hit, but for the company you want goals you don’t yet know how to reach, and that tension is real.

Original podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40-ENZmqcz0