On: Ask HN: What mistakes in your experience does management keep making?

[cpeterso]

Google uses a hierarchical system for quarterly and annual goals called OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) that tries to align goals for the company, orgs, teams, and individuals.

http://www.businessinsider.com/googles-ranking-system-okr-20...

[matrixagent → cpeterso]

Anyone else using that? We use it at my company with very varying levels of success.

[wtvanhest → matrixagent]

Almost all big companies. It was done when I worked at Intel 2010sh

[matrixagent → wtvanhest]

Interesting. How did you like it? Does every person at Intel have their own quarterly OKR list, or do they stop propagating down at some level? Were they always on time? How did lower levels give input with regard to what they thought were important goals? Or did really everything come top-down?

[groby_b → matrixagent]

A lot of places. It dates back to (IIRC) Intel in the late 70s. Doerr brought the idea to Google.

[matrixagent → groby_b]

Oh, I hadn't heard it was that old. Fascinating, so far I've always thought it was something that came directly out of Google itself.

[groby_b → matrixagent]

Google has a good PR department? ;)