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Guest Blog: OKRs and the culture of progress

by Lawrence Walsh | Feb 25, 2020

Guest Post

This week our guest blog on OKR Culture comes from Mark Greenley. Mark is the Head of Business Transformation at Victoria Plum and a valued client of There Be Giants. Mark is interested in reading and writing about how we can find better, more meaningful…

Leadership team buy-in is absolutely fundamental to success

by Lawrence Walsh | Feb 12, 2020

Leadership

There is no way to escape it, leadership team buy-in when it comes to OKRs is fundamental to the success of the methodology. “If OKRs as an initiative don’t originate from the top, it’s vital that those leading them enrol senior sponsors who will role…

Giant Talk – The world’s first OKR podcast partners with US based Koan

by Lawrence Walsh | Feb 07, 2020

OKRS

Giant Talk – the world’s first OKR podcast launched early in 2019 following a community demand for cross border OKR learning. In it’s first year the podcast has attracted a host of fascinating guests, global business leaders and thousands of listeners each week. The podcast…

Giant Talk – In conversation with Joshua Backer

by Lawrence Walsh | Jan 28, 2020

OKR Podcast, OKRS

In this week’s episode of Giant Talk – the world’s first OKR podcast, we talk to Joshua Backer of Unified. Unified are a social advertising technology and services company and were one of the earliest partners for Facebook, twitter, Snapchat, LinkedIn and Pinterest. Josh talks…

Values and why it’s important not to simply stick them up on your wall

by Lawrence Walsh | Jan 20, 2020

OKR Podcast, OKRS

In today’s edition of Giant Talk – the world’s first OKR podcast we talk values and how Spiceworks of Austin, Texas have integrated values throughout their OKRs. Lawrence: Hi everybody. Welcome back to Giant Talk – The world’s first OKR podcast. This afternoon I am…

Talking OKRs down under

by Lawrence Walsh | Jan 14, 2020

OKR Podcast, OKRS

Today we talk to Emma Lo Russo of Digivizer all the way from Sydney Australia. Emma co-founded Digivizer in 2010 with her business partner Clinton Larson. In today’s podcast we talk about Digivizer, the growth of the company and OKRs in Australia. Lawrence: Morning everybody welcome…