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






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OKR As A Tool To Set Priorities — Align Work




John called Andy the “Father of OKRs” and credited Andy for creating and inculcating a new way of structured goal setting. What can be a better way to learn how to be successful with OKRs than learning from Andy?

In Chapter 6 of his book “High Output Management”, Andy described Management by Objectives as part of the planning process. According to Andy, the idea behind MBO is extremely simple: If you don’t know where you’re going, you will not get there. A successful MBO system needs only to answer two questions:

  • Where do I want to go? (The answer provides the objective.)
  • How will I pace myself to see if I am getting there?(The answer gives us milestones, or key results.) Read More...

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