Waypoint Setting - How to Set Waypoints That Will Motivate Your Team

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Chris founded Aurora Innovation with Sterling Anderson, the former director of Tesla Autopilot and Drew Bagnell, Uber's former autonomy and perception lead. Hitting Waypoints together will give a clear sense of progress and shared achievement to keep everyone engaged with the mission. When you do it right, it will become a natural motivating force for your team.

To complete an audacious journey, you need to set short, achievable goals — or waypoints — to avoid getting wildly lost. But waypoints also need to be flexible because when you're knocked off track, you need to be able to realign your waypoints to get back on course. Aurora's Chris Urmson shares how he keeps returning to short, flexible waypoints on his daunting journey to make autonomous vehicles part of our everyday lives.

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