The problem with OKRs is that they force you to set goals without doing anything to guide you about how to actually achieve those goals, or even to improve your

The problem with OKRs is that they force you to set goals without doing anything to guide you about how to actually achieve those goals, or even to improve your odds. The industry fetish for OKRs is entirely due to survivorship bias. A few successful companies do OKRs and so now everyone does OKRs because no one stops to think about whether the success stories are because of OKRs or despite them. As an early Googler I can tell you from my firsthand experience that it was "despite" not "because". In fact, now that I reflect on it, the real function of OKRs is to get you to put in more hours, because either you haven't met your KRs yet and you need to keep working, or you have met them, and so you didn't set the bar high enough.