A Practical OKR Primer

🌍 There is no one core source of OKR knowledge, it's important to gather insights from various practitioners to get a practical view of what they are. 💡 OKRs have a long history in management science, dating back to Peter Drucker's work in 1953 and gaining popularity in the early 2010s. 🎯 The cascading of goals from mission to tasks allows for a clear alignment of organizational strategy at different time horizons. 📊 Objectives and key results provide clear, time-bound actionable tasks supported by measurable goals. 📈 OKRs are gaining traction in big companies like Google and Intel, leading to their great success. 📊 Employee engagement, something often seen as not quantifiable, can be measured through employee surveys to get hard numbers. 💡 OKRs discipline our thinking about strategic objectives, priorities, and how they cascade down to what needs to be done, establishing a measurement culture and focusing our effort. 🔄 Setting quarterly objectives and key results allows for continuous strategy refresh and alignment with historic performance, providing four learning cycles in the same time period most organizations have one.