<h1 id="context"><a href="#context" aria-hidden class="anchor"><svg aria-hidden="true" height="16" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 16 16" width="16"><path fill-rule="evenodd" d="M4 9h1v1H4c-1.5 0-3-1.69-3-3.5S2.55 3 4 3h4c1.45 0 3 1.69 3 3.5 0 1.41-.91 2.72-2 3.25V8.59c.58-.45 1-1.27 1-2.09C10 5.22 8.98 4 8 4H4c-.98 0-2 1.22-2 2.5S3 9 4 9zm9-3h-1v1h1c1 0 2 1.22 2 2.5S13.98 12 13 12H9c-.98 0-2-1.22-2-2.5 0-.83.42-1.64 1-2.09V6.25c-1.09.53-2 1.84-2 3.25C6 11.31 7.55 13 9 13h4c1.45 0 3-1.69 3-3.5S14.5 6 13 6z"></path></svg></a>Context</h1>n<ul>n<li>For Q3, we are working on launching <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OKR&quot; target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Objectives and key results (OKRs)</a> for the company.</li>n<li>Here’s my <a href="../two-years-into-leadership">recent article</a> about what I accomplished at Curalie GmbH.</li>n<li>Inspired by the book <a href="https://www.whatmatters.com/&quot; target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Measure What Matters</a> and <a href="https://medium.com/tradecraft-traction/this-chart-can-tell-you-when-its-time-to-leave-your-job-6926e0be9228&quot; target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">this article</a> which describes about what you are good / bad at vs what you like / dislike, I asked my directs to fill in the following table:</li>n</ul>n<table>n<thead>n<tr>n<th></th>n<th>Good</th>n<th>Bad</th>n</tr>n</thead>n<tbody>n<tr>n<td>Like</td>n<td>xx</td>n<td>xx</td>n</tr>n<tr>n<td>Dislike</td>n<td>xx</td>n<td>xx</td>n</tr>n</tbody>n</table>n<ul>n<li>The term <code class="language-text">Bad</code> necessarily doesn’t mean what you are bad at, but it also means what you want to improve on, sometimes you haven’t had the time to do a particular task despite you having liked it etc.</li>n<li>At first, I did this activity myself and realised how difficult it was to arrive at the columns for <strong><em>dislike & bad</em></strong> and <strong><em>dislike & good</em></strong>. The latter was easier than the former.</li>n<li>Having realised this, I asked everyone to think deep and reflect on the nature of the work, learning curve, product etc. to be able to figure out the difficult parts.</li>n<li>The gist of this table is to ensure that nothing is really there on the <strong><em>dislike & bad</em></strong> column.</li>n<li>If something is there then that should be the immediate action item to work on.</li>n</ul>n<h1 id="consequences"><a href="#consequences" aria-hidden class="anchor"><svg aria-hidden="true" height="16" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 16 16" width="16"><path fill-rule="evenodd" d="M4 9h1v1H4c-1.5 0-3-1.69-3-3.5S2.55 3 4 3h4c1.45 0 3 1.69 3 3.5 0 1.41-.91 2.72-2 3.25V8.59c.58-.45 1-1.27 1-2.09C10 5.22 8.98 4 8 4H4c-.98 0-2 1.22-2 2.5S3 9 4 9zm9-3h-1v1h1c1 0 2 1.22 2 2.5S13.98 12 13 12H9c-.98 0-2-1.22-2-2.5 0-.83.42-1.64 1-2.09V6.25c-1.09.53-2 1.84-2 3.25C6 11.31 7.55 13 9 13h4c1.45 0 3-1.69 3-3.5S14.5 6 13 6z"></path></svg></a>Consequences</h1>n<ul>n<li>Once this activity was done, the next step was to align this table with the OKRs.</li>n<li>The alternate way to look at this table is to look at the <strong>Good</strong> and the <strong>Bad</strong> columns from a company’s perspective.</li>n<li>For example, if you mentioned something in the <strong>Bad</strong> column, you could look into this as <code class="language-text">if this is really bad for the company</code>.</li>n<li>So <strong>Good</strong> for you, might be <strong>Bad</strong> for the company or vice versa.</li>n<li>Based on this, it gets quite easy to create objectives and key results for a quarter.</li>n</ul>n <div style="margin-top=55px; font-style: italic;">(This is an article posted to my blog at princiya.com/blog. You can read it online by <a href="https://atomic-temporary-42700218.wpcomstaging.com/blog/okr/">clicking here</a>.)</div>