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What is an OKR? Here are the Basics

A simple primer on what a good OKR looks like and common pitfalls that lead to poor OKR writing.

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Jeff Gothelf, Jeff Patton
Aug 20, 2020 • 8 min read
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Key Results
Management By Objectives (mbo)
Okrs
Personal Goal Setting

Summary

Objective Key Results (OKRs) are having quite an impact on the business world since their adoption. They have been deployed across companies in a bid to enhance teamwork, achieve organizational goals, and for scalability. This article helps us understand ORKs by detailing the meaning of Objectives, Key Results and how the two building blocks of OKRs come in handy in an organizational environment.

Takeaways

  • Key results are the metrics that help quantify the team's success towards achieving objectives.
  • Objective Key Results (OKRs) have a greater impact on organizational scalability, goals, and team building when compared to traditional goal-setting systems.
  • Objectives are actual goals a team sets to achieve. Good objectives are qualitative.

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