It's another corporate flavor of the "month" trying to solve a realistic problem developed by corporates themselves, in Corporatese.
In theory the idea of OKRs is fine. They are "supposed" to give individuals a form of autonomous growth which can be related to the company and has a way to be measured and traced back. It gives them the "personal responsibility", "growth" and "autonomy" which tickles a particular type of people.
In practice, there are too many conflicting viewpoints, agendas, power hierarchies, goals and more, to make them work out. That's assuming everyone works in good faith with one another, too. As others point out, nothing's keeping a manager from using OKRs against you.
Stay tuned when in 10-20 years it will silently die off to be replaced by another flavor, and reinvent the square wheel once more.
> In theory the idea of OKRs is fine. They are "supposed" to give individuals a form of autonomous growth which can be related to the company and has a way to be measured and traced back. It gives them the "personal responsibility", "growth" and "autonomy" which tickles a particular type of people.
I still don’t even understand how that’s supposed to work unless you’re an executive with wide latitude to do what you think is best. I worked on what my manager told me to work on. All I can control is the quality of my own work. Maybe it wasn’t meant for the rank and file.
In theory the idea of OKRs is fine. They are "supposed" to give individuals a form of autonomous growth which can be related to the company and has a way to be measured and traced back. It gives them the "personal responsibility", "growth" and "autonomy" which tickles a particular type of people.
In practice, there are too many conflicting viewpoints, agendas, power hierarchies, goals and more, to make them work out. That's assuming everyone works in good faith with one another, too. As others point out, nothing's keeping a manager from using OKRs against you.
Stay tuned when in 10-20 years it will silently die off to be replaced by another flavor, and reinvent the square wheel once more.