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By Ivan Osmak

January 27, 2021

OKR Insights

On rituals and rules

I was raised Catholic. Back in the day, when we were all young, a new priest came to my town. It was his first post, and as it usually goes…

By Ivan Osmak

January 25, 2021

OKR Insights Start with OKRs

How to write great OKRs

There is one thing that organizations of any type should master if they want to leverage the OKR superpowers - writing great OKRs. Why so? Because the quality of your…

By Marta Ilieva

September 9, 2020

OKR Insights

When Sun Tzu, Peter Drucker, and Andy Grove have coffee

The more that I think about it, the more I suspect that the organizational winners and losers of the next decade will be determined by a few critical factors, most…

By Jeremy Epstein

August 26, 2020

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How OKRs & Agile methodologies work together

It may not be evident at first sight, but something both OKRs and Agile methodologies have in common is the goal to bridge the gap between strategy and execution and…

By Gergana Mihaylova

June 24, 2020

OKR Insights Start with OKRs

A tale of two kings: OKRs vs. 4DX

In the “A tale of two kings” series, we aim to provide thought-provoking insights into goal setting and compare OKRs to alternative methods. In the first part, we’re going to…

By Lyubomir Hristev

June 2, 2020

OKR Insights Start with OKRs

OKRs for the Engineering team

Here, we’ll discuss some of the fundamentals of OKRs creation, including how to craft an effective engineering OKR. We’ll also provide OKR examples for inspiration at all levels of the…

By Seth Elliot

February 17, 2020

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

A Contrarian Approach to OKRs

In times past, I spent many an hour worrying about goal setting and OKRs in particular. For me, concerns usually fell into one of 5 big buckets: Defining inspirational OKRs…

By Bo Pedersen

August 12, 2019

OKR Insights Start with OKRs

6 tips to prevent failure in OKR implementation (Part 1)

If you’ve made the decision to implement OKRs in your organization, this article is for you. Maybe OKRs are new to you or perhaps you’ve tried implementing the methodology in…

By Viktoriya Marinova

June 10, 2019

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

Sales OKRs are NOT about sales targets

It is said that sales “lives by the number”. That number is usually some variation of revenue (bookings, billings, MRR, ARR…). The problem is that this number, as Jeff Bezos…

By Ivan Osmak

June 9, 2019

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

Why does Gtmhub not support weighted key results?

The use case of weighted key results is that some key results are more important than others – hence progress on the important key results should count for more than…

By Ivan Osmak

June 1, 2019

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

How companies run OKRs – according to data

Have you ever wondered how other companies and organizations run their OKRs? What is common and what is rare? Are you doing the best practices or are you being exotic…

By Ivan Osmak

May 28, 2019

OKR Insights Start with OKRs

OKRs: Gtmhub vs Spreadsheets

When just starting with OKRs, many organizations decide to start with something simple – often a Google Sheets or Excel template. Most people think that an OKRs platform can only…

By Ivan Osmak

May 22, 2019

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

One objective to rule them all; or how to kill it with OKRs

At the beginning of each quarter, the very first OKR I define for myself is a meta-objective: Kill it with OKRs. I’ve shared this practice with numerous people, and many…

By Ivan Osmak

April 8, 2019

OKR Insights

Outcomes over Output; or why OKRs are here to stay

OKRs are a white-hot topic at the moment. The management methodology which took roots in technology companies of Silicon Valley is now being implemented by banks, cities, corporates; small startups…

By Ivan Osmak

April 4, 2019

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

The power of passive-aggressive OKRs 😏

At the start of each quarter, one of the things I enjoy the most is setting passive-aggressive OKRs. Yeah, I am a lot of fun to work with. In general,…

By Ivan Osmak

February 19, 2019

OKR Insights Start with OKRs

OKR example: Software development

OKRs are simple, but not easy. The main problem people have when defining their OKRs is switching from an output (what I need to do) to an outcome (what I…

By Ivan Osmak

February 18, 2019

OKR Insights

The Relevant Organisation

What is relevance? Yuval Noah Harari’s latest book, 21 lessons for the 21st Century is a great quick read. Describing how new technologies are impacting labour markets, Harari identifies a new…

By Bo Pedersen

February 4, 2019

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