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Focus with goals (OKR etc.)

How to write an OKR focused on an outcome

An important aspect of OKRs is that they are deceptively simple in structure. This is part of the appeal. Easy to draft, easy to consume.

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Daniel Walters
May 03, 2020
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An important aspect of OKRs is that they are deceptively simple in structure. This is, I think, part of the appeal: easy to draft, easy to consume. This is both true and misleading in both cases, but it becomes apparent later. Probably by that time, some of the potential of OKRs as a tool…

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