hierarchy of objectives - NISHIO Hirokazu's Scrapbox (Auto-translated from Japanese)

hierarchy of objectives

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For a given purpose, "Why are we doing it?" for a certain purpose, Upper Purpose comes into play.

For a given objective, "How do we do that?" Subordinate Objectives when you think about it.

For a given objective X, "Why do it?" and after the higher-level objective Y comes up, "But the way to achieve it doesn't have to be X, right?" and X may disappear.

When you think about your personal purpose, you may ask yourself "Why? and finally come to the conclusion that "there is no reason, I do what I do because I want to do it", which is called "Purpose of Life" or "values".

OKR considers a hierarchy between the goals of an organization and the goals of individuals who belong to that organization.

But it implicitly assumes Inclusion of organizations and individuals.

That is a false premise in the age of parallel work.

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