Re-defining Objectives and Key Results for Evolutionary Organizations Aug 18 This is an excerpt from our upcoming Evolutionary OKRs Playbook. To subscribe to our newsletter and receive chapters as they’re released, visit http://findrc.co/newsletter ! All content here is © Sara Lobkovich, Red Currant Collective LLC. All Rights Reserved. Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) are a method for collaborative…

How OKRs fit into an organization’s strategic implementation stack I’m sharing early drafts of material from my upcoming Evolutionary OKRs Playbook, and today’s section introduces the first of two models that I use every day: The Connected Strategic Implementation Stack. Next up, I’ll add the Evolutionary OKRs Maturity Model. I hope today’s section helps put Objectives and Key Results…

For the last two years, I’ve been working on rewrite after rewrite of an attempted book about the “flavor” of OKRs we work with at Red Currant Collective, which we call Evolutionary OKRs®️. It started as an exhaustive guide; it became a workbook; and now in its final rewrite it’s…

(a common mid-year phenomenon) Before I dive into this article, here’s a quick re-introduction! I’m Sara Lobkovich, a strategist and Thinkydoer. As principal consultant for Red Currant Collective I work with large enterprise leaders, chiefs of staff, and strategic operators to improve their performance by changing their behavior and mindset around goal setting and…

How Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) are going increasingly mainstream as a helpful model for organizational goal-setting — You can also listen to the audio version of this post via the Thinkydoers podcast OKRs, or Objectives and Key Results, are a collaborative goal model made famous by John Doerr in the book Measure What Matters, and the methodology’s adoption by Google and many other high-growth startups and enterprises.

Smart brands are shifting experimental spends from programmatic advertising to creators and experiences in sports and the arts. Here’s why. Excerpted from an even longer read available for download here. Here at CW Moto we are avid motorcyclists, racing fans, and we live and breathe motorsports and racing. We’re also huge nerds. When I’m not handling strategic communication and schlepping tires for CW Moto Racing, I am a strategy consultant…

“Walk and talk” meetings are good for our bodies, our brains and our work. “Zoom fatigue” entered the Google Trends lexicon with a bang during the last week of March 2020. It’s now February 2021, and if the consulting and coaching clients I’ve spoken with this week are any indication…

How coaching OKR goal-setting rewired my brain This post originally published via my Fewer Better newsletter, now living at saralobkovich.com. If you find this post valuable, please subscribe here to receive each issue (published weekly). If you’ve seen me professionally in the last few months, you’ve already started the mental countdown on how long it will be…

I work from home full time as a consultant. And what that actually means in practice is that I work from wherever I am, often too much of the time, quite often when my friends and family wish I was able to do something else. I’ve been trying to prioritize…