Not long ago I received this question from the CEO of a client company: What is the best way to try to change the concept of 70% vs 100% achievement of OKRs? Over many years we have built a culture that anything less than 100% target achievement is undesirable....
Easy to Understand is Different from Easy to Do! Here’s a common phrase you’ll often hear associated with OKRs: “OKRs are simple, but not simplistic.” Here’s the simple part: The framework is decidedly lightweight, consisting of just three components: The objective...
OKRs and Mathematics? I heard a terrific story recently about Carl Friedrich Gauss, the eighteenth-century German mathematician, (as an OKRs Coach, I’m a sucker for a good eighteenth-century German mathematician story!). When Gauss was a schoolboy, a teacher...
Why do we need Key Results Owners? There is a phenomenon in psychology known as “diffusion of responsibility.” It refers to the fact that as the number of bystanders increases, the personal responsibility that an individual bystander feels decreases. As a result, so...
Are OKRs For You? The benefits of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) are many, varied, and rapidly becoming well-known at organizations around the globe. Increased focus on what really drives your strategy forward, enhanced top to bottom alignment, and increased...
Training & Application Based on our work with hundreds of global organizations, we at OKRsTraining.com are convinced that the success of your OKRs implementation is every bit as dependent on the human element as it is on the ability to create technically-sound and...
