The middle ground of setting goals for your employees at work is extremely murky

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No matter what type of work you do -- white-collar, blue-collar, physical therapist, construction worker, corporate CIO -- everything comes back, ultimately, to goals. (Not to get too deep here, but so does life.) When you end up managing others, you need to set a context around their goals…