Ah yes… the mythical MBA boogey man. I knew he’d make an appearance in the comments. :) Apologies in advance for the rant… The irony is that OKR’s are nothing

Ah yes… the mythical MBA boogey man. I knew he’d make an appearance in the comments. :) Apologies in advance for the rant… The irony is that OKR’s are nothing but a rehashing of Peter Drucker’s Management By Objectives (MBO)- invented in 1954 and already ignored by MBA programs by the 1970s. Management By Objective is useless until one is talking about the business unit level where folks have direct impact on profit and loss. If its not already immediately obvious what numbers are relevant to your job, there’s rarely anything to be gained by groping for them in the dark corners of a middle manager’s quarterly performance ritual. Apologies in advance to who(m)ever posted this article or may have found it useful since I’m not trying to be a dick here… but… at least to this idiot… the article is a list of maudlin management cliches actually far more tired than even OKR’s or MBO. As far as OKR’s, personally I find them a management charade at best, and destructive prob more often than not. Having wonderfully aligned goals and objectives is a good thing. But goals and objectives that aren’t wonderfully aligned? Not so much. Especially around self-driven folks- who most likely do the right thing in the absence of goals. And they’re especially bad if at all tied to compensation or promotion. The fact that many in the tech world have both trotted out this old, tired, and often destructive technique; and then pinned the blame on the mythical MBA; is so rich with irony that I prob shouldn’t have bothered to even open my mouth on the topic. p.s. Are MBA’s throwing around Scrum buzzwords these days? Man, we need to police our own… lol.