OKRs, Steward Leadership and Accountability: Why Take a Pie to the Face
Microsoft Head of Product Ryan McMinn describes how he uses OKRs to support the most important part of steward leadership—accountability.
May 5, 2022
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How Red Hat Uses Incentives and Impact Mapping To Help Remote Teams Thrive
Impact mapping and incentives help teams collaborate however and wherever they're working. Learn how organization-wide intention, from OKRs to working models, can build thoughtful connections.
April 21, 2022
Agile in the Age of COVID: What Groupon Learned From Adopting OKRs
Adopting OKRs helps you stay on track through shared outcomes. But you should know what steps to take first and how OKRs fit into your business goals.
April 7, 2022
Why Good Change Projects Fail: ‘Critical Connectors’ Might Be Key
Organizational change is far more likely to succeed when leaders identify, engage and earn buy-in from influencers across the enterprise.
March 25, 2022
How a Former Netflix VP of Product Thinks About Product Leadership
In product leadership, anything is possible. Develop the product strategy you need to succeed long-term using these unique frameworks.
March 16, 2022
You Should Nuke Your Backlog Every Quarter (For Real)
What if you don’t achieve your OKRs? Is it okay to delete your backlog and start anew every quarter? This expert’s controversial answer might just work for you.
March 3, 2022
Using a ‘Silicon Valley for the Rest of Us’ Strategic Agility Approach for OKRs
In today’s rapidly-changing world, you can no longer rely on a to-do list. Organizations need strategic agility more than ever.
February 24, 2022
Where you find what you seek: Introducing enhancements to Gtmhub’s Marketplace and Whiteboard experiences
We exist to help you achieve your goals, which is why we’re thrilled to announce two major enhancements to your Gtmhub experience.
July 27, 2021
The Joker in The Dark Knight and his OKR
The Joker achieved only 62.5% Objective progress. He failed to reach his goal because of his commitment issues and a lack of plan.
June 4, 2021
Thanos and his universe-shattering OKR
At 75% progress, Thanos failed to reach his objective. The primary blocker? Even as an all-powerful, all-seeing Villain with the power of the Universe in his hand, Thanos was too short-sighted to follow up his execution of the Snap. He failed to anticipate disruption.
May 28, 2021
Killmonger and his OKR
Killmonger achieved only 25% goal progress. He could have benefitted from more satisfied, engaged, and inspired Wakandians supporting his mission and strategy.
May 21, 2021
Hela and her OKR
Hela achieved 45% progress. However, there were two things that prevented her from reaching her objective: She failed to consider the greatest risk to her achieving her goal. And similar to Hans Gruber, she operated with a waterfall mentality rather than agile (little “a”).
May 14, 2021
Ultron and his OKR
Ultron achieved only 42% Objective progress. He failed to execute his strategy. Let’s review why through an OKRs lens.
May 7, 2021
Moff Gideon and his OKR
Business downfalls are no different than Gideon’s. Sometimes we map out our plans, execute them, and find out that we come up short in the end because of something unexpected.
April 30, 2021
Lions and Tigers and OKRs, Oh My!: The Wicked Witch of the West and her OKR
The Wicked Witch of the West learned that she had serial temporary advantage in her world, much like in ours. Her strategy needed a strategy. To win, she needed to iterate on and diligently execute new approaches more rapidly than her enemy.
April 23, 2021
Sheldon J. Plankton and his OKR
What you focus on matters and if something isn’t working, try something different. Plankton, almost aimlessly, pursues an Objective he consistently fails at without stopping to reevaluate his methodology.
April 16, 2021
Alonzo Harris and his OKR
Alonzo highlights an important and maybe not-so-obvious OKR lesson here. In the world of OKRs, we focus on outcomes.
April 9, 2021
Bane, the Masked Man. He carried on the legacy of another. Here is his OKR.
When we’ve reflected on our OKRs at the end of our cycle and didn’t achieve them, we should consider we might have chosen the wrong objective or wrong Key Results to begin with. Setting good OKRs is difficult. Bane learned that the hard way.
April 2, 2021
Measure What Matters in real life – March 2021 Edition
It’s the beginning of the new quarter. Gtmhub’s product updates will help you get through this point of the OKR lifecycle with gusto.
March 31, 2021
Cruella De Vil and her OKR
Cruella had a decent, albeit morally offensive, OKR. What happened? Why couldn’t she achieve her goal?
March 26, 2021
Where Sticky Notes Meet Strategy: Introducing Whiteboards
We’re excited to announce Whiteboards, the solution to ideas lost in transition. Whiteboards are where strategy execution becomes real.
March 23, 2021
Hans Gruber in Die Hard: Stealing the Day with OKRs
Gruber’s plan seemed like a stroke of genius. Dying at John McClane’s hands (Yippee-ki-yay Mother…[NSFW]) was not a potential outcome Hans accounted for. This objective needed to be a committed effort with an adaptive strategy and flawless execution. 60-70% achievement wouldn’t cut it.
March 19, 2021
Measure What Matters in real life Feb 2021 Edition
We’ve got your back and are happy to introduce a few new features that will help ease your worries and put what you’ve read in Measure What Matters into practice. Check out the new product updates that happened in February 2021.
February 26, 2021
Names are the Jet Fuel for Your Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
Names are the mission statements behind our OKRs.
February 18, 2021
Dreams with Deadlines
Dreams with Deadlines is a podcast by the makers of Gtmhub. Every other week, you’ll hear stories from ambitious people who are trying to make a mark in the world with their teams.
April 28, 2020
Feature Release: The Hub and Other Improvements
We’re happy to announce these updates to Gtmhub! The Hub We created a Hub for you. We want all our users to know what they need to do next. Need to update your Key Result? Want to add a note so you can keep your team in the loop? We’ll have it in your Hub.
December 20, 2018