from vision to executing strategy with okrs
DESCRIPTION
You've got a great idea. How do you make it happen? IF you have the vision, how can you and your team achieve this goal? This presentation covers failures, successes, and learning from best practices. Howe do we go from vision to executing strategy. We've learned from a great deal of mistakes, from others, and especially from OKRs @ Google, GTD @ David Allen, and Making Ideas Happen @ Scott Belsky.TRANSCRIPT
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Anant CorporationLeadership & ManagementFrom Vision to Executing Strategy
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Agenda• Failures - Due to too much freedom
How to recognize failure as a lack of discipline, doing the wrong things in general wasting time.
• Successes - Setting goals, taking responsibilityHow to set realistic goals, take responsibility, and with failures take feedback as lessons learned for the future.
• Adopting Best Practices - Why reinvent. There are others who have gone before you who have struggled with the same thing. Use their knowledge and wisdom. Being a maverick works in somethings, not everywhere.
• Today - Because we learned. Today, we use a combination of our best lessons learned and others’ best ideas with a combination of tools that are already out there.
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Failures - Due to too much freedom
• “Do what you want”It doesn’t work. There needs to be leadership that sets the agenda.
• “On your time”It doesn’t work. Deadlines need to be followed.
• “Not doing it is okay”Not doing something because someone is “busy” doesn’t work.
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Successes - Goals, Responsibility
• Quarterly ObjectivesWe started creating a “charter” of sorts for the whole company every quarter.
• Weekly KaizensThe partners became extremely honest with each other about successes, failures, improvements.
• Focus - Priority - ImprovementsWe broke down our objectives into a focus to orbit, priorities to achieve, and improvements to make.
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Adopting Best Practices – It’s Smart
• GTD - Getting Things Done by David AllenShows individuals and teams how to achieve ‘mind like water.’
• OKR - Objectives / Key Results by John DoerrWhat worked for Intel, works for Google, will work for you.
• Making Ideas Happen by Scott BelskyBasically a simpler way to do GTD. Everything is a project with actions, a backlog, and references.
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Today - We Learned Something
• Yearly - Organizational + Team PhoenixShows everyone in the company what are the most important objectives / key results.
• Quarterly - Member PhoenixEach member and their supervisor agree to certain individual objectives / key results.
• Weekly - Individual ACM Goals + ReviewEach person has 3-6 goals they are working toward each day.
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Tools - We’re still learning.
• Workflowy - Great for PlanningSimple outlining tool with sharing and editing.
• Delta (ActiveCollab) - Great for ExecutionEach member has assigned tasks / sub tasks. The whole company has a weekly milestone.
• Weekdone - Still trying it out New to our company. We’re still testing it out.
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Feedback & Call to [email protected]
•Worked?•Didn’t Work?•Could be
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Contact
Rahul Singh• Click on the Icons Below
Anant• Web: http://anant.us• Email: [email protected]• Phone: 1855ANANTCO• 1010 Wisconsin Ave. NW,
Suite 250Washington, D.C. 20007
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Focus – One Thing• Anant
To maximize our potential to our clients, we need to focus on ourselves. What is the one thing we can be doing this year, this month, this week to be better?
• Client To maximize the potential of our clients, we need to focus on how we can best serve them so that they can serve their customers. What’s the one thing we can do for our clients so that they are better?
• MasteryTo maximize your potential to Anant or the Client, you need to focus on how you can improve yourself. What’s the one thing you can learn or be better at so that you can help your team mates?
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Action – Disciplined Action
Vision – Purpose - Mission
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Educate and Empower
Knowledge• Good to Great• Focus (Marketing)• Focus • The ONE Thing• Zen to Done• Differentiate or Die• Making Ideas Happen• Managing your Day to
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More Knowledge• First Things First• Google “Kanban”• Google “Kaizen”• Google “Agile”• Lean Startup Method• Toyota Way• Four Steps to the
Epiphany