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Committed vs. Aspirational OKRs
OKRs have two variants, and it is important to differentiate between them: Commitments are OKRs that we agree will be achieved, and we will be willing to adjust schedules and resources to ensure that they are delivered. • The expected score for a committed OKR is 1.0; a score of less than 1.0 requires explanation for the miss, as it shows errors in planning and/or execution. By contrast, aspirational OKRs express how we’d like the world to look, even though we have no clear idea how to get there and/or the resources necessary to deliver the OKR.
• Aspirational OKRs have an expected average score of 0.7, with high variance.
Measure What Matters
John Doerr
The leads of the product teams came together to organize the wish list of initiatives. They grouped the initiatives in terms of which themes each project supported and then stack-ranked them in terms of the contribution they believed each initiative would have—that is, they associated each initiative with the outcome they thought the work would create and showed how those outcomes would support the strategic goals expressed by leadership. They estimated head count for each initiative and sent the results to the finance experts, who correlated these plans with some of the major financial metrics they tracked and considered how the proposed work might impact results. When this was done, the plan was sent back up to the executives for review.
Sense and Respond
Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden
> **Step 2: Reorder And Trim The List Of Questions For Maximum Clarity**
> Once I have ChatGPT’s outline, I edit and refine the list of questions:
> • Rearranging them into a natural flow
> • Keeping the most valuable, high-impact questions
> • Identifying any missing angles (case studies, examples, stories, etc.)
Fwd: Frictionless Outlining With ChatGPT
Felicity Bodger
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