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January is typically the month where a lot of us set new and often ambitious goals for ourselves. And the coming weeks are typically the ones where we once again fail miserably in achieving them. Maintaining and working hard towards a goal - especially a big hairy one - is really hard and takes an… Continue reading Getting your goals right
OKRs are a super efficient way of setting short term objectives and define key initiatives to reach them. It is perhaps the most simple way of ensuring that your startup is at all times outcome-driven that you can get. But there is one key element to setting your OKRs that you should keep in mind… Continue reading Manage your effort
Often times I meet people who question the value of a focused, operational communications strategy. The argument is that there are plenty of other more important jobs to get done before looking coherently at communications. Allow me as a former communications professional to take a step back and look at the kind of value, great… Continue reading Cash value of communication
Today marks the beginning of the last quarter of the calendar year 2021. For many that’s an opportunity to assess previous objectives and set up new ones for the new quarter using the OKR method made famous by Google. That’s all great. But what many find is that OKRs can actually be quite tricky to… Continue reading 3 tips for setting OKRs
Not everybody is a brilliant strategist. And that’s ok. Yet every founder team need a strategy for how to develop and grow their startup, and what do you do, if the very thought of developing a strategy just gives you an uneasy feeling? The simple answer is that you make it as easy as you… Continue reading Ask strategic questions
I love OKR's as a concept. And God knows I have been trying time and time again to make them and associated tracking apps and services work for me and my team. But alas; I have failed every single time. It is not that setting up OKRs is super hard; everybody can define and objective… Continue reading The problem with OKR
When trying to build a startup ground up, there are a ton of different tasks that need to get done. And keeping track of it all is essential. But how do you do that efficiently? For me I have resorted to using a combination of Trello and OKR. We use OKR's to define our objectives.… Continue reading Trello and OKR