Google HR boss says managers spend just as much time talking about failure as they do about future success

Bloomberg/Getty Google is known for encouraging employees to set stretch goals, and for expecting that they might not always get all the way there. At the same time, managers don't simply accept failure and move on. In fact, they spend as much time discussing projects that went wrong as they do talking about successful initiatives. That's according to Laszlo Bock, Google's SVP of People Operations. Bock recently spoke with Kris Duggan, CEO of Betterworks, about the way goal-setting works at Goog...