OKRs in Startups and Typical Managers
Isa Steiner, CTO at CAR FOR YOU, shared her experiences with OKRs at this meetup. She has been working with OKRs for years and has encountered them at several startups as well as at Google: “Since industrialization, planning and goal setting in companies have been top-down processes. When I joined the workforce in 2004, this was about to change as modern companies realized that well-educated people are not just ‘grateful to have a job,’ and the war for talent had begun. In all my management roles, I learned that if I give people autonomy, responsibility, and accountability, I can attract the best talent who will go above and beyond to achieve our goals. OKRs are the perfect framework to support this mechanism. Sometimes it is surprisingly difficult to make teams understand why OKRs are a great way for them to shape their own destiny. But once they see how they can use them to contribute their own ideas to the larger goals, they adopt them and start using them.”