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Here, you’ll find resources we create to help teams create, implement, and operationalize No-BS OKRs™ (called Evolutionary OKRs® in some workplaces) to set clear goals, stay focused, and build cultures of growth, learning, and high performance.
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Leading Change
The leader’s role is to operate in the most complicated intersections of their organization’s Venn diagrams. We must project optimism and confidence to internal and external stakeholders. And, we must also recognize and address risks and pain points in ways that may call for curiosity and vulnerability.
These resources help (sometimes frustrated) leaders of change get curious about their organizations’ frictions and build leadership habits designed to walk the talk of transformation.
Serendipity
Communication, conflict, behavior, justice, equity, ideation, creative fuel, energy, rest, and the reality that we’re all humans doing what we can with what we have where we are. This is where our life and work intersect, and where you’ll find occasional recaps and round-ups of the serendipity in the work (and lives) we do (and live).
Re-introducing the Thinkydoers™ podcast
With the launch of Red Currant Collective, we’re prioritizing new episodes of From Think to Do, a podcast and blog for thinky-doers: people whose work spans deep thinking, through the messy middle, into doing.
The #1 question organizations ask about OKRs? "How do we cascade them to every team and person?" After training 2,000+ OKR coaches across 300+ organizations, my answer is controversial: You don't. Traditional OKR cascading creates a "mathematical nightmare"—turning 4 company objectives into 100+ unmanageable goals. There's a better way: flexible localization that helps teams align through a simple 3-question framework without drowning in complexity. Learn why cascading fails, when teams need different goal tools, and how to implement team OKR alignment that actually works.