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Objectives and Key Results are first and foremost an empowerment technique. The main idea is to give product teams real problems to solve, and then to give the teams the space to solve them. This goes right to the core of enabling ordinary people to create extraordinary products.

— EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products (Silicon Valley Product Group) by Marty Cagan

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