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Watch the TedTalk by Jon Doerr (2018) on strategy in terms of objectives and key responses (OKRs) from our transparent vessels which are made from the whats and hows of our ambitions. Maybe a vessel is like our worldview or a calling which Smith (2011) describes in part as something we feel in response to the brokenness of the world and know we have the resources and talent to respond. The need for an internal alignment between an objective and a person may be similar to what Mullins and Walkers Chapter 12 describes as the organizational fit between an objective and the organizations capabilities based on things like resources, structure, values, policies, and procedures. Doerr and Simon Sinek would add to this internal alignment the importance of the why behind the strategic action. Furthermore, Chapter 12 may extend the OKR to strategic fit with the outside world too by considering the external alignment of an objective to a (1) target customers and (2) competitors and other relevant technological or macro-environmental realities as well as (3) the organization or person.

I invite you to think about your life for a moment. Consider your community and key relationships as your target audience and what macro-environmental realities are most relevant to your circumstances offering you specific strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Then think about you as the organization in terms of sober judgment (discernment) regarding influences like your faith, worldview, your calling, your strengths and weaknesses, patterns of behaviors i.e., personality, education, and experiences.

Doerr suggests that OKRs can be used beyond business to apply to things like ourselves, our families, schools, and government in order to measure and hold ourselves accountable for what really matters to us as individuals and a collective community. Considering the ideas proposed by Doeer, Sinek, Chapter 12 and 13 of the textbook, your experience, and outside sources, can you answer the question adapted and proposed below?

1. Do you have the right metrics (ways to measure your objectives)? 2. What are your values, your objectives, and your key results? 3. Are your objectives significant, concrete, actionable, inspirational?