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Escaping the Clutches of the Corporate World: There Be Giants

by Roger Longden | Apr 25, 2019

Values

Roger Longden, founder of Bury-based company There be Giants, writes about his experience forming the UK’s leading OKR consultancy. OKR? Read on to find out more. https://www.northernsoul.me.uk/blasting-out-from-bury-there-be-giants/

Change: Embracing it with OKRs

by Roger Longden | Apr 16, 2019

Values

Change-Making It’s that time of year again. The start of the new financial year (for many of you). Time to settle down and bed-in for the year ahead. Have you looked at what changes you’ll be making in your business in the next twelve months?…

Why OKRs are not your “silver bullet”.

by Roger Longden | Apr 15, 2019

Values

A recent post written by Craig Kerstiens called “OKRs Aren’t Going to Fix Your Communication Issues” recently popped up on my radar. To be honest, I couldn’t agree with him more. This is why OKRs cannot be seen as your “silver bullet”. This may sound…

Spotify Blog 2 : How they nail their process

by Lawrence Walsh | Mar 26, 2019

Values

How many of you have started your business, had one awesome team that was perfectly aligned and harmoniously in sync, thought to yourself “This is awesome, let’s expand and conquer the world – WE’RE READY!”, taken on more staff, developed more teams and then have…

OKRs with Guest Blog by Adam Dorfman: Why TAP are bringing in OKRs

by Gill Arnott | Mar 07, 2019

Values

Adam Dorfman is CEO at TAP ‘Talent Access Portal’. After months of hard work and consideration the team at TAP decided to implement both Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and distributed ledger technology (DLT) into the Talent Access Portal. Their innovative methods will restore public…

Evolving your use of OKRs & gaining more from them

by Roger Longden | Feb 16, 2019

Goals, OKRS, Values

I recently had the opportunity to run “retros” (retrospectives) for a couple of our clients who had reached significant milestones in their use of OKRs.  Unfortunately, due to NDAs, I can’t name names but what I can say is they are both in business of…