Bad leadership will make a meal of any approach to work, its true. OKRs are not easy - they take good leadership, discipline and a culture which is open to feedback and committed to learning and adapting to what it learns. I wouldn't even say OKRs is the best way to work this way, just the most popular (hence why I wrote about the complimentary things we paired with it).
They just feel like “busywork for objective setting”.
If they involved candles and a pack of tarot cards, I wouldn’t even blink.
> they take good leadership, discipline and a culture which is open to feedback and committed to learning and adapting to what it learns
Those things that are notoriously reliable and common: discipline, good leadership and a culture of adaptation. Anything _relying_ on discipline is doomed from the start.
