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“those organizations shared something else in common: a glaring lack of alignment. I’d have no clue as to what other teams were doing, or how we might work together toward a common objective. We’d try to compensate with more meetings, which only wasted time. If you put two people in a boat and have one row east and the other row west, they’ll use up lots of energy going nowhere.”

This really resonated
Mar 07, 2026 09:15PM
Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

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Tony Stanfel
Tony Stanfel is 30% done
The football analogy for OKRs was a simple yet great example of showing go easily an organizations communication can breakdown and the different business units are working towards a common goal and they can’t measure their success to boot.
Mar 05, 2026 07:47AM
Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs


Tony Stanfel
Tony Stanfel is 20% done
“Too many objectives can blur our focus on what counts, or distract us into chasing the next shiny thing.”

What proactive steps can we take to avoid ending up in this situation?
Mar 02, 2026 08:31AM
Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs


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