Making OKRs ‘Stick’

Making OKRs ‘Stick’

Practicing What We Preach One of my OKRs for this quarter is to go through all of the many business magazines and books I’ve read over the past several months and extract the nuggets I think are particularly relevant – those I can share with clients to help them...
Comparing Apples & OKRs – Seriously

Comparing Apples & OKRs – Seriously

An Apple A Day… As a busy consultant with clients around the globe, I spend a lot of nights in hotel rooms. Chances are, if you’re reading this, you’re frequently on the go and log your fair share of time in hotels as well. If that’s the case,...
OKR Book List: What You Must Read Before You Implement OKRs

OKR Book List: What You Must Read Before You Implement OKRs

Learn OKR Objectives and Key Results is a management framework designed to help organizations achieve breakthrough results by focusing on what matters most, driving engagement, and aligning employees from top to bottom. Championed by Google, the system is now...
How to Score OKRs

How to Score OKRs

Scoring OKR Objectives and Key Results is a framework designed to help organizations improve performance by focusing on what matters most. All three elements of that previous sentence are important – framework, improving performance, and what matters most. In this...
On OKRs – An Insider’s Look (Hint – Googler)

On OKRs – An Insider’s Look (Hint – Googler)

Google Thinks Big At Google, we like to think big. Google uses a process called Objectives & Key Results (OKR) to help communicate, measure and achieve lofty goals.  In January 2000, a member of the Board of Directors, John Doerr, stressed the importance of...
OKR – The Basics

OKR – The Basics

What Are OKRs? Objectives and key results (OKR) is a strategic framework that defines and tracks objectives and their outcomes. The OKR framework was created by Intel CEO Andy Grove and brought to Google by venture capitalist John Doerr and has been used by several...