What You Must Know About Objectives and Key Results To Be Successful At All Levels




OKR As A Tool To Set Priorities — Align Work




  • MBO is largely designed to provide feedback relevant to the specific task at hand; it should tell us how we are doing so we can make adjustments in whatever we are doing if need be. For example, a project might be delayed due to technical issues. As a result, the completion date for a key result will have to be updated to a later date.
  • The system of management by objectives assumes that our concerns are short-range. Thus, we should know quite well what our environment demands from us.
  • Since the objective is relatively short-range and the key results are so specific, a person should know without question whether she has completed them and done it on time or not. Accordingly, to be useful a key result must contain very specific wording and dates, so that when deadline time arrives, there is no room for ambiguity. Read More...

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