by smerriam | Feb 15, 2023 | Blog
By Devon Brown & Daniel Montgomery While many organizations have incorporated or adopted OKRs as a powerful goal setting tool, OKRs’ use for individual goal setting, especially as part of a performance management system, has been contentious. There appear to be...
by smerriam | Aug 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
The ability to pivot together, quickly, is your only sustaining competitive advantage. If the last two years have proved anything, it’s that major disruption can happen at any time. Things we thought we knew based on the past are out the window: “Even in hard...
by smerriam | Aug 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
There is a critical balancing act an organization must achieve in order to enable strategic execution. If OKRs are critical and exciting goals, then shouldn’t it follow that they are the basis for an individual’s performance management? This is a presumption and...
by smerriam | Mar 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
In a recent blog post Roger Martin, co-author of the best-selling book Playing to Win, cautioned about Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) being used as an “implicit substitute for strategy” and that they are better seen as a “complement to strategy”. At Agile...