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On OKR’s The trend of Objectives and Key Results in an organization I’m currently finishing up John Doerr’s book “Measure What Matters” and learning about the current OKR wave. What are OKR’s and what is the history? How are OKR’s different or the same as traditional organizational goal setting? What are the potential challenges or …
Thoughts on Asking for a Raise Or anything else Today we are going to talk through the process of what to do, and maybe what not to do, when you have to go talk to your boss about a raise. It is important to think through this because most people would just assume that all …
Urgency and economic cycles It has become trendy to use phrases like “especially in the current economy” for everything from marketing to whitepapers. This baffles me because aren’t we always in a ‘current economy’ of some sort? What they are most likely trying to do is to highjack some of the inherent urgency that macroeconomic …
Book Review for Goodreads. Originally published 1967. Edition read was Harper Business, 1993. I’m too young to have been part of the Drucker Generation. I had always heard him talked of and quoted among the staid and dusty corners of mainstream business, but I never thought to reach back and read him. Drucker’s words and …
Zone to Win Another timely, excellent piece of management theory from Geoffrey Moore. YouTube Chalk Talk -> https://youtu.be/PDiCkAzMq54 Geoffrey Moore makes his living creating new frameworks in business that rationally explain company and market behavior, then using these frameworks to mine epiphanies for we lesser souls. I remember reading “Crossing the Chasm” in the early …
