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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
McCracken’s “grow by 50 percent” is classic bad strategy. It is the kind of nonsense that passes for strategy in too many companies. First, he was setting a goal, not designing a way to deal with his company’s challenge. Second, growth is the outcome of a successful strategy, and attempts to engineer growth are exercises in magical thinking. In this case, the growth SGI engineered was accomplished by rolling up a number of other firms whose workstation strategies had also run out of steam.
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
Richard Rumelt
To figure out what your North Star is, you should ask “Why are customers using my product? What is the core value they seek?”. Focus on the product and market as they are now.
Evidence-Guided
Itamar Gilad
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