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  • 15 April 2026OKRsStrategyTechnical Leadership

    Move the Needle with AI: Lean OKRs as a Forcing Constraint

    Most organisations say they're using AI - copilots, pilots, impressive demos - yet the business looks the same. The problem is rarely the model or the talent. It's intent. How Lean OKRs force AI to actually change how work gets done.

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  • 25 October 2022OKRsHR

    Making OKRs Lean Again

    Objectives and Key Results. A 40-year old, simple goal-setting framework, initially created by and for technology companies that needed to innovate at the speed of light. They are still wildly relevant today, some four decades later, and when used correctly, they can help you to achieve 10x growth.

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  • 1 April 2022OKRsHR

    Making OKRs Lean Again - Final Part

    Objectives and Key Results. A 40-year old, simple goal-setting framework, initially created by and for technology companies that needed to innovate at the speed of light. They are still wildly relevant today, some four decades later, and when used correctly, they can help you to achieve 10x growth.

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  • 14 March 2022OKRsHR

    Making OKRs Lean Again - Part 3

    Objectives and Key Results. A 40-year old, simple goal-setting framework, initially created by and for technology companies that needed to innovate at the speed of light. They are still wildly relevant today, some four decades later, and when used correctly, they can help you to achieve 10x growth.

    Read more →
  • 3 March 2022OKRsHR

    Making OKRs Lean Again - Part 2

    Objectives and Key Results. A 40-year old, simple goal-setting framework, initially created by and for technology companies that needed to innovate at the speed of light. They are still wildly relevant today, some four decades later, and when used correctly, they can help you to achieve 10x growth.

    Read more →
  • 23 February 2022OKRsHR

    Making OKRs Lean again Part 1

    Objectives and Key Results. A 40-year old, simple goal-setting framework, initially created by and for technology companies that needed to innovate at the speed of light...

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  • 20 September 2020OKRsTechnical Leadership

    OKR Software is a scam!

    You don’t need dedicated OKR Software, so don’t fall into this trap. Organising your goals into Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) is supposed to be simple. Very simple, that’s why it works. If you make OKRs too complicated by having too many, or when you have too many layers in your organisation, yo

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  • 5 March 2020OKRsTechnical Leadership

    Mission Impossible? OKRs to the Rescue

    Many organizations that make the decision to start with OKRs make the same mistake: too many OKRs at the executive level.

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  • 8 January 2020OKRsTechnical LeadershipGrowth

    Barriers to growth

    You want your company to grow. That desire could be driven by shareholders and investors, your own ambition or your exit strategy. So what do you do? You hire a bunch of growth hackers to get your inbound and outbound marketing up to speed, hire some killer sales reps and do some pricing tricks. Thi

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  • 4 December 2019InnovationTechnical Leadership

    Pragmatic Goals Need Innovation

    In the pursuit of your mission and vision, in life as well as in business, the individuals that see the best return on their efforts are those that have laid the framework from getting from point A to point B with pragmatic goals.

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  • 28 November 2019OKRsTechnical LeadershipStrategy

    OKR Check-In Learning Curve - What to Expect in the First Year (Quarterly Cadence)

    You’ve recently started with OKRs, defined company-level OKRs and your teams already have linked OKRs. You are ready to start your first OKR cycle. What things can you expect when you perform your OKR check-ins? Let’s look at different stages of your OKR implementation.

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  • 21 November 2019StrategyTechnical LeadershipOKRs

    What To Do When Every Priority is Critical

    I often come across companies where everything is a top priority. Let’s take a look at a fictional corporation, Acme Bank, where revenue was low last quarter. Like many, their natural response is to cut expenses.

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  • 14 November 2019Technical LeadershipOKRs

    Eight tips to Improving Accountability with Weekly OKR Check-ins

    You find yourself sitting at your desk, scratching your head. What is going on? You thought you were clear and fair. You repeated it so many times. How is it possible that your teams still don’t do what you expect of them?

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  • 6 November 2019Technical LeadershipStrategyOKRs

    OKR Check-ins: Making Consistent, Meaningful Progress

    People hate uncertainty. Research has proven that people can experience stress and illness when dealing with ambiguity and obscurity. Our brain appreciates certainty the same as food, sex, and social connections. We humans are rather predictable creatures, ruled by genetics and time-honoured surviva

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  • 30 October 2019Technical LeadershipCulture

    Organisational Culture Shock - Introducing OKRs

    So, you have recently heard about this new management goal-setting method called OKRs and you are really eager to implement them within your organization. If Google and all of the other big tech giants are using them, then they need to be good right? So, what do you do next?

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  • 23 October 2019StrategyOKRs

    Slingshot your OKR success

    Last week I was a guest in the Fit Bots webinar where I talked about "Slingshot your OKR Success".

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  • 4 June 2019StrategyTechnical LeadershipOKRs

    Clarity with a single OKR

    “Focus is the thing that makes the difference between excelling and flailing about in mediocrity” ~ Christina Wodtke.

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  • 2 April 2019OKRsOKR Check-ins

    How to run a successful OKR Check-In

    Last week Perdoo founder Henrik-Jan van der Pol asked me to describe how teams can run a successful OKR check-in. OKR Check-ins are the key ingredient of any successful OKR implementation. But they are hard to do. You need to run them at least weekly, come well prepared and make sure your team membe

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  • 12 August 2018Technical LeadershipStrategy

    Closing the gap between strategy and agile teams – an interview with Bart den Haak

    Read my interview with Workpath on this important topic.

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