Searching for better goal setting methods & read Measure What Matters (a book about OKRs). Was left unconvinced
OKRs work when leaders *really* understand the org machine, but derail a company when set arbitrarily
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I continue to believe that the entirety of Doerr’s book may be summarised in the 2-3 pages Grove dedicated to discussing Management By Objectives in High Output Management.
And Grove was the OG who invented the approach.
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Yes! 100%. The wordcount:insight ratio in this was far less than what I would've expected from someone like Doerr
+ the lack of addressing edge-cases beyond a surface-level acknowledgement of the Goals Gone Wild paper
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