Dream Outcomes
Adam Saad, Founder and CTO of Tech Stack Advising, is passionate about dream outcomes.
He says, “Goals are great. KPIs are good. But words matter. Dream outcomes should be on a different level.”
Let’s dive in and learn all about the difference between standard goals and your dream outcomes.
Key takeaways from Adam Saad
1. Where to start? Divide and concur.
Focus on how a dream outcome can affect each person who has a seat at the table and what they care about.
If you can get everyone to agree individually, then when everyone meets together they understand how the dream outcomes come together.
You will have more buy-in and better results when trying to achieve those dreams.
2. Identifying problems is easy. Coming up with your dream outcome takes time.
Most people focus on the problems that are stopping them from achieving their dream outcome, instead of focusing on the dream outcome itself.
Which is why Adam always tells people to think bigger.
Most people are never asked about their dream outcome so it takes multiple iterations to get them thinking about those dream results.
3. Break your dream outcome into 30-60-90 day sprints.
In the first 30 days, it’s fire extinguisher time. Put out two of your biggest “fires” first to get quick wins. This makes achieving your dream outcome seem more realistic.
Note that processes tend to break down the fastest when trying to achieve these dream outcomes.
Be open to changing processes and just because it’s always been done a certain way, doesn’t mean that’s the way it should be done.
Plus this ties quarterly goals to your dream outcomes, which makes them even more likely to be achieved.
