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Using a ‘Silicon Valley For the Rest of Us’ Approach for OKRs | Dan Montgomery, author, founder and Managing Director of Agile Strategies, and OKR Thought Leader

Using a ‘Silicon Valley For the Rest of Us’ Approach for OKRs | Dan Montgomery, author, founder and Managing Director of Agile Strategies, and OKR Tho…

FromDreams with Deadlines


Using a ‘Silicon Valley For the Rest of Us’ Approach for OKRs | Dan Montgomery, author, founder and Managing Director of Agile Strategies, and OKR Tho…

FromDreams with Deadlines

ratings:
Length:
40 minutes
Released:
Feb 8, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

“If you don’t bring OKRs into the regular management agenda, you will set it and forget it.”- Dan (20:47)What You Will Learn in this Episode:
(02:20) Dan on his interest in people’s organization plus the different career paths he’s undertaken.
(03:35) Why he wrote his book Start less, Finish More, which is about strategic agility.
(04:56) How to do more strategic thinking – begin with the end in mind rather than focusing on a to-do list. 
(07:04) How to create a minimum viable strategy – creating holistic value for all your business’s stakeholders.  
(10:37) The difference between the traditional mechanical business planning and today’s trying and scaling strategy.
(13:48) The 5-steps of building strategic agility as outlined in his book; access, focus, commit, act, and learn. 
(29:34) Overburdened matrix – not being agile and operating in silos plus how to use shared OKRs to cut across those silos.
(33:09) Dan answers more quick-fire questions.
Relevant Links:
Website: https://agile-strategies.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/montgomerydan/
Released:
Feb 8, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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These are real stories of trials and victories in business. We'll talk about aligning teams and organizations around a common purpose, the ups-and-downs of goal management using Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), and everything in-between.