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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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What are OKRs? (Objectives and Key Results)
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What are OKRs? (Objectives and Key Results)

This chapter of my upcoming Objectives and Key Results Book shares some basics about OKRs: a method for collaborative goal setting and alignment. In practice, well-formed OKRs can help us fill the gap between our high-level strategy and our tactical implementation decisions, so that what we do is better aligned with achieving our most important outcomes.

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Preview: The No-BS OKRs Playbook
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Preview: The No-BS OKRs Playbook

After years of writing alone and then sharing with (wonderful, patient) beta readers, with this rewrite I’m doing something different. It’s time to write in public.

Here, I’m sharing the first full chapter, Chapter One. (It’s also available in podcast form via the Thinkydoers Podcast.) I look forward to your feedback; the rewriting is done, but the editing is not, so there’s still time to incorporate constructive edits.

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Introducing Evolutionary OKRs
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Introducing Evolutionary OKRs

OKRs are a method for setting collaborative, objectively measurable goals made popular by the book Measure What Matters, which creates enormous excitement about the potential of OKRs, but leaves many teams and leaders frustrating trying to figure out how to implement them.

This episode introduces the Red Currant Collective brand of OKRs: No-BS OKRs (formerly Evolutionary OKRs, still used in some corporate environments). No-BS OKRs are designed to create meaningful change and help organizations transform and actually do better.

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The Podcast

Thinkydoers is where we shift out of our heads and whiteboard drawings and work to find language for our thought-work and stories.

Each episode tackles a question, a thought experiment, or a resource intended to help you reduce frustration and friction, and increase satisfaction and flow, in your work.

Courses & Community

Thinkydoers, frustrated change agents, overthinkers, and challengers of the status quo:

You’ve found your people.

Here you’ll find our library of free downloadable tools, results-focused online learning options, and other ways to connect through our communities. Draft Evolutionary OKRs Playbook