vp changed the OKR mid-quarter and your team is demoralized

the challenge

it's week 7 of 13. your team shipped a meaningful activation feature last sprint, the kind that took four weeks of hard coordination between design, eng, and data. on tuesday, your VP announced a company-wide pivot: the Q2 OKR is now about enterprise pipeline, not consumer activation. your consumer work "still matters, just isn't a board priority right now." that afternoon, your designer sent you a slack: "so... was the last four weeks pointless?" two engineers are visibly disengaged in standup. one asked if they should just stop the current sprint and start "whatever the new thing is."

you have a skip-level with the VP next week — your first in six months. your team has no enterprise context, no enterprise relationships, and the new OKR is under someone else's umbrella. the VP hasn't reached out to you directly since the announcement.