OKRs are a powerful goal-setting and leadership tool for communicating strategic priorities and the milestones you’ll need accomplish. When smartly paired with performance management systems, this can be a powerful alignment tool. Yet there are some critical mistakes that are too often ignored.
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Leadership and the Seahawks
People seem to either love or hate the Seahawks. Regardless of your thoughts about the team, their coach Peter Carroll’s approach to leadership is unique in the NFL. I just read a really insightful article about the Carroll’s leadership style: Pete Carroll’s road to redemption leads Seahawks back to SuperBowl, shot at history. A coupleContinue reading “Leadership and the Seahawks”
Do you really know what you really want?
Earlier today I finished up a communication workshop with a great client, @AgStar, and was struck by one key point of the workshop that received a lot of attention. The first thing you must do, when engaging in a critical, crucial, difficult, significant…conversation is clarify what you really want. Not what you are acting likeContinue reading “Do you really know what you really want?”
If you are not sick and tired of communicating, you aren’t communicating enough.
Leading Change Not too long ago I had ACL surgery. While going through the process I had the opportunity to consider the similarities between my experience with the doctor, and many people’s experience with change in their organizations. My knee doctor is great at what he does—he’s the head physician for the US Snowboard TeamContinue reading “If you are not sick and tired of communicating, you aren’t communicating enough.”
Inciting Leaders 