A distracted or misaligned team is not a productive or effective team. Alignment is a no-brainer in theory. But the difference between theory and practice is greater in practice than…
OKRs are a proven framework for effective strategy execution that is becoming almost ubiquitous among digital-native and agile enterprises of all sizes. Why are OKRs ideal for strategy execution in…
Ultimately, that outcome, the assignment of value by a party (or multiple parties) external to the organization is the reason for being of the organization. Call it “The Ultimate Outcome.”
How to keep all people aligned? Should Company X be implementing the new strategy initially only within the C-Suite or a focus group involving department leads is required? What kind…
Originally developed at Intel and now used by companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook, OKRs have a proven track record of getting results for large-scale enterprises.
It’s easy to associate OKRs with large companies rather than startups and small businesses. But, as industry guru John Doerr says in Measure What Matters: “At smaller start-ups, where people…
Give me a strong reason why. Give me the ways and means to learn how. But please don’t tell me what to do. From Compliance to Commitment Purpose led businesses…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The key question is not whether to use OKRs or KPIs. Rather the opportunity is to use both OKRs and KPIs to drive positive change, while managing the business as…
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is one the worlds largest banks. It is also one of the worlds most troubled banks, with several long lasting hangovers still inflicting pain years…
The worlds largest banks are playing catch up. After retreating to lick their wounds after the near death experience of the Great Financial Crisis ten year ago, banks are back,…
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…
Don’t treat Execution like the Ugly Duckling. It’s really a beautiful swan that can save both your Purpose and Strategy from languishing in misunderstood and much ignored irrelevance.
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,…
There is a lot of talk about the value (or not) of stretch goals. Practiced and preached for decades, stretch goals are not new. However, in our experience, we see…
In this blog series, we will be looking at the potential return on investment from implementing Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). Across 5 articles we will look a how the…
One of the reasons I am so grateful to work at Gtmhub is that we get to work with some of the best organisations, doing amazing things, performing at the…
In this blog series, we will be looking at the potential return on investment from implementing Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). Across 5 articles we will look a how the…