Okrs for All: Making Objectives and Key Results Work for Your Entire Organization

by Vetri Vellore, Lee Goettl (Reader)

The spiritual successor to KPIs (key performance indicators), OKRs, or objectives and key results, are rapidly gaining popularity and helping some of the world's most successful businesses solve their strategic execution problems. However, some companies struggle with their implementation, finding that using OKRs as top-down directives changes little. In OKRs for All , Objectives and Key Results (OKR) expert Vetri Vellore delivers an impactful and actionable guide on how to use OKRs for more than a quarterly, executive-level review tool. You'll discover how to roll out an OKR system that closes the gap between strategy and project, and starts at the bottom of your organization and helps managers and teams organize their daily decisions around shared and important goals. You'll a seven-part blueprint and framework to strategically put purpose at the center of your work, whether you are a CX, team lead, or individual contributor; how to build an OKR strike team, align your departments, manage your people, and roll out your new strategic OS; valuable and implementable case studies from companies you know and love; and best practices to follow and common pitfalls and mistakes to avoid when applying OKRs throughout your organization.

Genres: Business, Management, Productivity

Audio CD

Published January 10, 2023

Reviews

[Will · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you want to learn all about OKR and how to apply in your organisation, this is the only OKR book you need to read.

[Rich Gibbons · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gives a really good insight into what OKRs are, how they can help you and your business, and how to get started with implementation.

There's lots of information to help you build a picture of how to use OKRs and plenty of steps and processes to reference as you progress.

[Mikhail Filatov · Rating 2 out of 5]

The author is executive of a company (acquired by Microsoft) which sells OKR Software. So a lot of his book sounds like consultancy service pitch for it.
The main problem of this book -and OKRs in general-is about actual objectives aka goals setting. The author compares OKRs with places to reach.
But unless you are a SaaS startup where you can set MAU and some revenue per user as main OKRs it’s not clear what is OKR and what is KPI.
The examples in the book don’t help.
E.g., one of the examples of objective is
“Expand into the LATAM market.”
With one of Key Results: “hire and train 4 bilingual sales executives by Feb 10”
Really? This is an example of a good key result… isn’t it just an “output” without unknown outcome?
Etc.

[Nopadol Rompho · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another good book related to OKRs written by Vetri Vellore, one of the OKRs experts. Recommended.

[Ivan Lebedev · Rating 2 out of 5]

Horrible. Advertising material. The real content can fit a couple of pages.

[Vanessa Walsh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very clear and easy to follow. Loads of specific examples.