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by danesparza 741 days ago
"There's no magic solution to this."

Sure there is. It's called OKRs.

OKRs are a popular management philosophy and framework used by organizations to set and achieve goals. The concept was first developed by Andy Grove at Intel and later popularized by John Doerr, who introduced it to companies like Google.

Here’s a breakdown of the OKR framework:

Objectives: These are high-level, qualitative goals that the organization or team aims to achieve. Objectives should be ambitious, inspirational, and aligned with the overall vision and mission of the organization.

Key Results: These are specific, measurable, and time-bound outcomes that indicate the progress towards achieving the objective. Typically, each objective has 3-5 key results. Key results should be quantifiable, making it clear whether the objective has been met by the end of the evaluation period.

2 comments

Let me stop you right there. Just because something worked for Google when they were a hot new start-up, doesn't mean it will work everywhere.

A lot of workers from many industries are sick and tired of consultants bulldozing by force down their throats various cargo-cult management techniques like SAFe Agile or the conjoined triangles of success into their jobs, but it's not a guarantee solution everywhere.

Every company is different, every org is different, every team is deferent, every employee is different.

Have you actually worked at an organization that used OKRs? Because I’ve worked at Meta and Google and the OKR process was a bunch of bookkeeping BS that never seemed to actually achieve the lofty goals set for it.
Yes. Also OKRs existed long before Google and Facebook ever existed.

Just because Google and Facebook didn't use them correctly doesn't mean they don't work. :-)

More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectives_and_key_results