Category: OKRs
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The first big data contest in the US: the 1890 Census
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The surprising story of how a clerk in the census office would use his brother-in-law’s textile machine to revolutionize data analysis – and lay the groundwork for the entire technology industry.
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Where do our OKRs belong?
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It’s critical to make OKRs public within the organization so everyone can see what everyone else is committed to. It’s equally important that the OKRs live in one place.
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How not to draft your first OKRs
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I’ve helped countless teams implement OKRs for the first time; one meeting from nearly a decade ago stands out as a textbook example of What Not To Do.
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How important are quarterly goals?
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How do you draft a goal that focuses the team’s effort, pushes for ambitious outcomes – even if the 90 day timeline may not be sufficient?
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Red Team OKRs
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Putting on an adversarial hat when reviewing draft OKRs can help isolate and remediate problematic OKRs so that good grades are synonymous with momentum and progress at the end of…
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OKRs as institutional memory
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OKRs ensure that once your team learns a lesson, everyone – including future team members – will remember.
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Squirrels can kill the vibe
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Distractions are a given, it’s how we respond to them – how we ignore them – that will determine our ability to succeed.
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Binary: Good for code, bad for OKRs
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A founder I’ve known for several years reached out recently. Their first quarter’s OKRs were quite good, with one exception that’s common to many organizations implementing OKRs for the first…
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Throw away the rabbits
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OKRs are all about creating a shared framework, a language, for understanding what the organization prioritizes, how it prioritizes, and why it prioritizes some things above others.
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What my OKRs video got wrong
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My OKRs video has over 1M views on YouTube. There are a few things I’d change if I could do it again.