The OKR Blueprint

6 Actions

Here’s something many books and articles about OKRs won’t talk about: actions. The conversation too often stops at key results, so we are now going into interesting territory. This book is about OKRs. Actions do not have a place in this acronym. But in my experience, organizations that align their objectives and key results but do not align their actions struggle very much. For them, key results become a list of wishes, a list of aspirations. Just writing down your aspirations does not make them happen.

To highlight how important actions are, we sometimes use the shorthand OKRA – Objectives, Key Results and Actions. We are not introducing a new framework layer here; we are simply making the execution layer explicit. Actions often ...