Tag: Management And Leadership
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Declaring Goal Bankruptcy
Start the year by erasing all of your goals and do this instead.
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OKR Leadership: Stop telling people what to do
The biggest change a leader has to make if OKRs are to succeed is to stop telling their teams what…
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OKR Leadership: Without trust for your teams OKRs fail
Leading teams with OKRs requires several changes to the way you manage. The first and most important is trusting the…
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OKR Anti-pattern: Sandbagging your key results
Teams that sandbag their OKRs set easily achievable goals. Here’s why this stifles innovation and what you can do about…
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Why does planning require a “season?”
We spend a tremendous amount of time planning next year’s work. We don’t need an entire season to do this.…
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Planting Season vs Harvest Season
Businesses are cyclical. Thinking about when you’re going to plant vs harvest ensures we’ve always got new ideas to try…
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Bottom-up? Or Top-down? What’s the best way to set OKRs?
Don’t assume that telling your teams what their OKR goals should be is the best approach. Here’s a better way.
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Did Lean Startup fail at GE?
Josh Seiden & I have received tremendously positive feedback to the launch of Sense & Respond Press. Our newest venture,…
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Optimizing your team’s velocity (of learning)
Here is what people are saying about Sense & Respond: “some great case studies and an extraordinarily clear case for…
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“Everyone is too busy” is not a prioritization strategy
This post was originally published to my newsletter subscribers (12k of them now). If you’d like to get these updates…