OKRs (Objectives & Key Results) are a framework for validating alignment through the organization. As a company, as a department, as a team: what are we focused on this quarter? What are we trying to make true? Alignment looks nice when the team OKRs roll up to the department OKRs, and those add up to the company OKRs. This is logical. And terrible. Occasionally Summation Makes Sense In the Sales department, you have some revenue objective. You might divide that up between regions. From there, a...