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Moving the Needle With Lean OKRs
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Moving the Needle With Lean OKRs

by Bart den Haak
November 2021
Intermediate to advanced
330 pages
7h 27m
English
Business Expert Press
Content preview from Moving the Needle With Lean OKRs

CHAPTER 3

How to Write Great OKRs

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

—Wilma Rudolph

Chapter Highlights

From “comfort zone” to “learning zone”

How to create “oarsome” Objectives

Aspects of effective key results

Magic questions and formulas

I once worked for a large retail company, and during one of the first OKR setting workshops, we tried to define the Objective for the next quarter. We agreed that the launch of the new webshop was our main Objective. Finishing it within 90 days was a major stretch for the company. All companies set goals, but defining meaningful and inspirational goals is a big challenge ...

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ISBN: 9781637421161