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Using OKRs helps you move the team from output thinking to outcome thinking. It may take a few tries, but you will be more successful once you focus on outcomes.
Radical Focus SECOND EDITION
Christina Wodtke
At lower levels, people’s objectives and key results might encompass close to a hundred percent of their work output. But managers had additional day-to-day responsibilities. If my objective is to grow a beautiful rose bush, I know without asking that you also want me to keep the lawn green. I doubt I ever had a key result that said, “Walk around to stay on top of employees’ morale.” We wrote down the things that needed special emphasis.
Measure What Matters
John Doerr
**Interesting connection to AI Training / Research:** The overall approach / objectives of the WBR seem very similar to how Ilya Sutskever described how they approach AI training / research. The focus is less on “new ideas,” and more on understanding the behavior of the system. Here’s the quote:
> “Coming up with new ideas is actually just a modest part of the work. Even more important is to understand the results…to understand what’s going on…figuring out the next experiment to run. A lot of the time is spent on that. Understanding what could be wrong, what could have caused the system (neural net) to produce a result which was not expected.”
The real driver of progress / execution / performance/ superior results comes *less* from the generation of the new ideas, *more* on the ability to understand WHY the outcomes are happening. To put it another way: the better you understand the system, the better your innovation and performance will be.
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