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TAHs: OKRs for Life Planning

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I've always been fond of exploiting my experience as a startup founder to better lead my life. In a sense, you're your own CEO. One of the most interesting aspects of startup management that can support life planning is strategy. What comes first? What gets the highest priority? What to tackle next? Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) is a powerful goal-setting framework that many companies, big and small, deploy when working on their business strategy. They essentially help managers coordinate long term goals with short term tasks by forcing the company to measure progress. Say that a startup wants to become the #1 app for yoga in South America (the "Objective"). By measuring the progress towards carefully selected quantifiable goals (the "Key Results"), like "increase weekly sign-ups from Argentina to 50k by September", management can keep track of the goal's status before the deadline, allowing for mid-way corrective actions. Now, super organizers and quantify-selfers see OKRs as an e

TAHs: OKRs for Life Planning January 2021 I've always been fond of exploiting my experience as a startup founder to better lead my life. In a sense, you're your own CEO. One of the most interesting aspects of startup management that can support life planning is strategy . What comes first? What gets the highest priority? What to tackle next? Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) is a powerful goal-setting framework that many companies, big and small, deploy when working on their business strategy. They essentially help managers coordinate long term goals with short term tasks by forcing the compan

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