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On Christmas Day 1974, Intel boss Andy Grove is staring down a disastrous detour into consumer gadgets, and scribbling a diary note that hints at something bigger than the Microma watch: a new way to run knowledge workers. By splicing Peter Drucker’s management by objectives with Abraham Maslow’s psychology, Grove invents OKRs to solve two headaches at once, complacent risk-avoiders and brilliant self-actualisers who will not focus. Later, executives turn that humanistic tool into a weapon, so what happens when goal setting becomes a licence to humiliate?


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