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...
Are You Creating OKRs, or Just Restating Your Mission?

Are You Creating OKRs, or Just Restating Your Mission?

Simple Without Being Simplistic One of the biggest benefits of the OKRs framework is simplicity. Just four words: Objectives and Key Results, that represent two basic concepts: What do you want to do, and how you’ll know you’ve achieved it? This simple taxonomy is a...
The Promise and Peril of Transparent OKRs

The Promise and Peril of Transparent OKRs

OKR is About Best Practices One of the most refreshing aspects of the OKRs movement is the fact that the framework doesn’t suffer from a stack of restrictive rules. Fortunately for all of us there is no detailed manifesto of specific practices that must be followed to...
So Many Books, So Little Time

So Many Books, So Little Time

Excess Access I recently heard a TV executive say that between broadcast networks, cable, and streaming outlets there are over 400 scripted shows running in the U.S. right now. Over 400! How are we supposed to keep up with them? Every time I chat with friends a new...