04 Sep What 16 Pieces of Toast Taught Me About Keeping Things Simple
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18 Jul Are You a Leader? Want Your Teams to Create Better OKRs? Then Focus on the True Definition of Commitment
Does Executive Prerogative Have Limits? In the business press, at conferences around the globe, and in boardrooms far and wide, we talk endlessly about the importance of empowering employees, of driving engagement, and unleashing the creativity inherent in every employee. One of the methods frequently cited...
10 Jul Three Ways Effective OKRs Can Build Trust in Your Organization
High-Trust Organizations I recently found a very compelling article in Harvard Business Review focused on the many benefits of increasing trust in the workplace. The author, Paul J. Zak, notes that employees in high-trust organizations are more productive, have more energy at work, collaborate better with...
26 Apr What the Liberty Bell Has in Common With OKRs
When Crisis Looms In April 1917, as “the war to end all wars,” and its attendant horrors raged on, the United States was in trouble on a different front – the financial battlefield. To raise money necessary to fund the war effort, the Treasury had undertaken...
23 Mar Are You Creating OKRs, or Just Restating Your Mission?
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Simple Without Being Simplistic One of the biggest benefits of the OKRs framework is simplicity. Just four words: Objectives and Key Results, that represent two basic concepts: What do you want to do, and how you’ll know you’ve achieved it? This simple taxonomy is a great...
19 Feb How to S-C-O-R-E with OKRs
Will You SCORE With OKR? Here are five principles to keep in mind if you hope to succeed with your OKR implementation. S is for Strategy The first two questions you have to ask yourself when launching an OKRs program is: Why OKRs, and why now? Objectives and...
07 Dec Is 5 Whys Too Many for OKRs?
5 Whys To Wisdom Way back in a 1996 Harvard Business Review article authors Jim Collins and Jerry Porras introduced me to the concept of “5 Whys.”[i] The idea is simple: Whenever you’re faced with a challenging situation, ask the question why five times to reveal...
27 Nov Creating OKRs in a Maze
No Way Out! Have you ever had that dream where you’re trapped in a building, running down hallways, yanking open door after door, only to find yet another long empty hallway? At the very least it’s frustrating to be hopelessly lost without bearings, but it can...
26 Oct Use Interleaving to Develop Better OKRs
Interleaving? Did you make that up? I know what you’re thinking: “What the %#a*$ is interleaving?” I know! I’ll answer that in a second. First, let’s talk about how some organizations go about developing OKRs. In my experience it’s not uncommon for groups to split the task...
27 Sep The First Law of OKRs Creation
OKR - Cart or Horse? OKRs have been proven to help overcome many vexing challenges that plague modern organizations. For example, they can: foster teamwork and collaboration, drive engagement through their mix of top-down and bottom-up development, and ensure your focus is fixed squarely on just...