John Doerr on OKRs and Goal Setting at Google and Intel

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If your plan is complicated, you might get overwhelmed and the goal will be become a dream. Dreaming, per se, is not bad; great inventions and ideas are usually propelled by a dream. But when it comes to smart planning, you will need attainable goals to realize your dream. If you ll notice, ATTAINABLE is closely related with being specific and measurable.

For example, if a manager tells an employee improve client satisfaction, the employee would still feel a little confused because the order is still broad and too general. To be specific, the order could still be made specific by telling the employee to be smiling to all clients when dealing with them.

Make sure these goals are put up in a simplified and easily comprehensible manner that the team as w hole would not ever forget especially during the ardent, tedious and hard practice sessions, when patience is utmost needed and required from each team member. Overall, when setting sports goals for the team, make sure to inspire each members to have sheer and firm determination.

You can manipulate both by setting short term goals that would eventually make up or lead to longer term goals. Invest on education and research when setting financial goals for yourself. If you want to accrue interests for your savings over time, make sure you do proper research about the tools and investment vehicles where you could put money, and where that money would significantly earn interests.

The planning, even at the earliest stage, can be properly arranged, so as to determine the general objectives from specific ones. The general objectives can be broken down into medium-term plans, while the more specific objectives can be arranged in a descending order, starting from the most important to the least.

By being specific, you also set measurability of an action, so you can check every now and then the progress you are doing over a goal. Be realistic on setting goals. Do not set goals, which are, in general and from the start, impossible to achieve. Adults and analytic people know how to be realistic most of the time.