Your OKR Cascade is Breaking Your Strategy (August 8, 2025) Most companies cascade OKRs down their org chart thinking it creates alignment. Instead, it fragments strategy and marginalizes supporting teams. Here's what works better than the waterfall approach.
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Should individual people have OKRs? (May 5, 2025) A good OKR describes and measures an outcome, but it can be challenging to create an outcome-focused OKR for an individual.
10 OKR traps and how to avoid them (May 5, 2025) I’ve helped lots of teams implement OKRs or fix a broken OKR process. Here are the 10 most common problems I see, and what to do instead.
How I use OKRs (October 10, 2023) A description of how I use OKRs to guide a team, written so I can send to future teams.
Input metrics lead to outcomes (September 9, 2023) An easy to understand example of using input metrics to track progress toward an outcome.
Lagging Outcomes (August 8, 2023) Long-term things often end up off a team's goals because they can't see how to define measurable outcomes for them. Here's how to solve that.
Tyranny of Outcomes (August 8, 2023) An extreme focus on outcomes can have an undesired effect on product teams.
Stretching your team (June 6, 2018) Stretching your team is one of the best ways to improve your output, your team's happiness, and your velocity. But they'll need coaching.