One widespread piece of advice on OKRs—and goals in general—is that you should “focus on goals that you can control alone.” Companies don’t want, for example, the marketing team to say that they didn’t achieve their OKRs because engineering didn’t do theirs, so they tell each team to focus on what they can control. The problem is that, by definition, this approach creates silos. If each team—or individual—focuses only on what they can control, every issue that requires cross-team coordination is stranded.