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I agree. OKRs are renamed MBOs. This is extrinsic motivation and a giant waste of time. At best, it’s a process-heavy priorities setting/strategizing mechanism. At worst, it causes unnecessary employee anxiety and distraction away from current business needs.

Any measurement that is a metric (goals in OKRs) will cease being a metric. It will be gamed.



MBO and OKRs are not (supposed to be) the same methodology. Their proponents decades back were of opposing views on how to manage.




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