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OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

Avoid these 5 fail factors

Are you paying attention to your fail factors? There has been a lot of attention on the idea of North Star metrics, measuring what matters, and other ways of tracking…

By Bo Pedersen

August 8, 2018

Strategy meets Execution

How to win: Inspire, Act, Measure.

Every organisation we work with strives to perform better every day. They are on missions to change the world for the better, in their own unique ways. The people who…

By Bo Pedersen

August 2, 2018

Strategy meets Execution

Impressions from Saastr Europe

Gtmhub helps companies grow faster and deliver an awesome employee experience. To learn what other companies are doing to grow and build a world class culture, I attended Saastr Europa…

By Bo Pedersen

June 19, 2018

Strategy meets Execution

Scaling is about more than product

Investors love scalable businesses. Matt Clifford calls founders going through the company builder Entrepreneur First ‘scale seekers’.  Philosopher and mathematician Nassim Taleb introduced me to the concept of ‘convexity’. The…

By Bo Pedersen

June 18, 2018

Start with OKRs Strategy meets Execution

3 Steps to improved performance and employee happiness

Why engage Gtmhub? From my 1st day at Gtmhub, my personal objective has been to prove that it is possible to combine professional performance with personal happiness. For a long…

By Bo Pedersen

June 11, 2018

Strategy meets Execution

What if we fire you all today?

Today I’ve talked with two different companies, which coincidently have the same problem. Namely, they’ve recently adopted OKRs and in each of these companies, there is a team being extremely…

By Ivan Osmak

May 15, 2018

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

Annual vs Quarterly OKRs

A common question we get is – should we set annual OKRs or quarterly OKRs? In this post, I am going to describe what we have found to work best…

By Ivan Osmak

March 6, 2018

Strategy meets Execution

How we use JIRA and OKR together

A common question is how to tie OKR process with Scrum. At Gtmhub we are passionate about Objectives and Key Results, but we also build software every day. We are…

By Ivan Osmak

February 15, 2018

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

Top 5 myths about OKRs

Most organizations will fail with OKRs on their first attempt. The actual reasons differ, but quite often it’s the gap between expectations and reality. In this post, I am going…

By Ivan Osmak

February 13, 2018

Start with OKRs Strategy meets Execution

OKRs enable home and remote workers

At Gtmhub we use objectives and key results to clearly define and communicate to each team member what matters most. Pros & cons of working remotely We have daily standups…

By Bo Pedersen

February 8, 2018

Strategy meets Execution

The multiverse concept

When we think about a company or an organization, typically one assumes a simple hierarchy in which orders flow from top to bottom. The procedures are developed in order to…

By Ivan Osmak

February 5, 2018

Strategy meets Execution

Mary Parker Follett: The Prophet of Management

The story of Mary Parker Follett is, in many ways, the back to the future type of story. Largely ignored in the 20th century, her ideas, books, and essays were…

By Ivan Osmak

January 30, 2018

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

How to restart your OKRs when they fail miserably?

Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) are a great management methodology, but implementing them is notoriously hard. Very sizeable percentage of companies that decide to implement OKRs will fail within first…

By Ivan Osmak

January 26, 2018

Strategy meets Execution

Top 8 reasons why management is hard

Managing people is mostly about aligning their objectives with objectives of the organization. Because these two tend to be very different, and often even mutually exclusive, things often go wrong.…

By Ivan Osmak

January 23, 2018

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

OKRs vs KPIs

When people first learn about OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), a lot of times they’ll be confused how are OKRs different from KPIs (Key Performance Indicators). Admittedly, there are certain…

By Ivan Osmak

January 18, 2018

Strategy meets Execution

Why is everyone abandoning performance reviews?

In 2012, Adobe announced it would abandon annual performance reviews. Since then, many organizations followed suit: Microsoft, Dell, Deloitte… among others. When announcing such plans, organizations often say that annual…

By Ivan Osmak

November 7, 2017

Strategy meets Execution

Gtmhub customers accomplished 86% of their objectives in the last 12 months

The point of setting goals is to achieve them. When companies decide to implement OKRs, it is because they want to achieve meaningful objectives at a scale.

By Ivan Osmak

October 13, 2017

Strategy meets Execution

Link Insights, Goals, and Effort to reach your performance potential

Bottom Line Organizations will achieve the greatest overall performance boost by taking a holistic approach to Insights, Goals, and Effort. Insights keep you on top of what matters Goals define…

By Bo Pedersen

October 10, 2017

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

MRR or Monthly Recurring Revenue

What is MRR? MRR or Monthly Recurring Revenue is a KPI specific for SaaS (Software as a Service) businesses. In SaaS business model, customers pay regular (typically monthly) subscription for…

By Ivan Osmak

October 5, 2017

Strategy meets Execution

How and why Spotify ditched individual OKRs

The other day I came across this post on Spotify’s HR blog: Why individual OKRs don’t work for us. It’s an interesting read, especially when it comes from a company…

By Ivan Osmak

June 17, 2017

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

Why do OKRs fail?

Not every team that decides to implement OKRs will succeed in doing so. We, at Gtmhub – just as other vendors – will give advice and point out solutions, but the…

By Ivan Osmak

June 2, 2017