Why OKRs might not work at your company
It <i>feels</i> like OP has made a bit of a straw man out of OKRs. More charitably, perhaps we did not get our information from the same place - all I know about OKRs is from reading &quot;Measure What Matters&quot; and implementing it in my own company. Reading this article makes me feel like someone took an incredibly simple idea and decided that what it needs is more complication.<p>From TFA: &quot;most companies are not set up to effectively apply this technique&quot;. Yes. And if you read the above book, you&#x27;ll learn that this is sort of the point. You WILL fail at your first few OKR cycles, but you&#x27;re supposed to use those experiences to change your company into one that CAN set and achieve objectives.<p>If you think your company is one where OKRs won&#x27;t work, all the more reason to do them.<p>OKRs are about creating and communicating strategic short-term objectives across the company, so they remain top of mind. And that&#x27;s 80% of what you need to know! The objections to OKRs mentioned in the article don&#x27;t make sense to me, because it seems to follow a different definition of what OKRs are.