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NOTE·5 May 2026

Why I have stopped recommending OKRs to early teams

OKRs are a way of compressing strategy into measurable goals. Early teams do not have strategy that compresses well — they have hypotheses, and hypotheses do not need quarterly objectives, they need experiments. Use them at fifty, not at fifteen.

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