“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:
Dreams with Deadlines