Start the year by erasing all of your goals and do this instead.
OKR Leadership: Without trust for your teams OKRs fail
Posted on April 11, 2022.Leading teams with OKRs requires several changes to the way you manage. The first and most important is trusting the team you’ve hired to do their work. Here’s how to start.
Why are you working on that?
Posted on February 21, 2022.Shared purpose and alignment come from a broad understanding of strategy. Here’s how to help your teams know why they are doing their work.
OKR Anti-pattern: Sandbagging your key results
Posted on February 7, 2022.Teams that sandbag their OKRs set easily achievable goals. Here’s why this stifles innovation and what you can do about it.
The Difference Between Individual OKRs and Personal OKRs
Posted on January 17, 2022.Should you have personal goals in life and at work? Yes, you should. Should you use OKRs to set those goals in both contexts? No. Here's why.
Should we use OKRs for everything?
Posted on November 22, 2021.We use OKRs to set goals. Should all of our goals then use OKRs? This article discusses which goals make sense and which don't.
Performance management criteria for OKRs
Posted on September 20, 2021.If we're going to set new goals with OKRs, we need to change how we measure the performance of our teams. Here are 6 ways to do that.
Forever Employable Stories: Simon Majumdar, chef, writer, podcaster, television personality
Posted on March 22, 2021.Simon Mujamdar, writer, chef, podcaster and tv personality, shares his Forever Employable story on career change in your 40’s.
OKR anti-pattern: reverse engineering key results to match your backlog
Posted on February 15, 2021.I work with teams around the world every day helping them implement objectives and key results. I’ve written about OKR here a lot over the last few years and now, … Continue reading OKR anti-pattern: reverse engineering key results to match your backlog
How I built a professional community to grow my business
Posted on January 11, 2021.Finding the right community to help grow your career isn’t always easy. Sometimes the better path is to build your own community. Here’s how I did it.