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I only jest because I did see John speak and give a presentation about his OKR system while I was working at Airware (now defunct). I was just fresh from Linke
by iamleppert 8y ago
I only jest because I did see John speak and give a presentation about his OKR system while I was working at Airware (now defunct).
I was just fresh from LinkedIn, where OKR’s had recently been implemented. I got to see how they systematically eliminated some of the best employees in favor of those who were willing to game the system and create fake goals for themselves.
As I sat in the audience, I thought to myself, “Finally I’m meeting the fabled creator of OKR’s.”
Airware went out of business a few years later.
- heymijo 8y agoI would have been mad. Heck, I'm mad just reading that. It's bad management. If you are going to use metrics you have to know that they are going to create perverse incentives. It's management's job to be vigilant in seeing/hearing and looking for those perverse incentives and then determining if the trade off is acceptable.
- village-idiot 8y agoI feel like most "X technique led us down a bad path" are actually "we had shit tier management and nobody could fix it" stories in disguise.