Moving the Needle with Lean OKRs Quotes

“When we talk about OKRs cascading, we often mean from the top-down, but the most effective method is to incorporate bottom-up initiatives that support the company’s overall strategy and are set by empowered teams.”
― Bart den Haak, Moving the Needle with Lean OKRs

“successful firms are characterized by maintaining bottom-up internal experimentation and selection processes while simultaneously maintaining top-driven strategic intent” (Burgelman 2012).”
― Bart den Haak, Moving the Needle with Lean OKRs

“With OKRs, everybody starts to understand the greater goal and see the system as a whole, thus transforming not only your company’s results, but also its culture.”
― Bart den Haak, Moving the Needle with Lean OKRs

“although individuals may benefit from using OKRs in their personal life, in companies, OKRs should be used on a team level.”
― Bart den Haak, Moving the Needle with Lean OKRs

“New results require new behavior, sustainability as well as leverage, and are greatly improved when targeting human habits and attitudes.”
― Bart den Haak, Moving the Needle with Lean OKRs

“Too often, the great transformative potential of OKRs is not translated into extraordinary results, merely because they are not used correctly. The”
― Bart den Haak, Moving the Needle with Lean OKRs

“OKRs have much in common with other popular strategy execution frameworks like Hoshin Kanri, Balanced Scorecard (BSC), and Management by Objectives (MBO). Leaders should always examine if OKRs are the right tool for them. Often leaders that say they “need” OKRs but are actually better off using an adjusted version of one of the alternative frameworks above.”
― Bart den Haak, Moving the Needle with Lean OKRs

“Objectives and Key Result (OKRs for short) is an open source goal setting system with broad applications which was originally designed to create faster learning within an organization and achieve extraordinary results.”
― Bart den Haak, Moving the Needle with Lean OKRs

“A Lean concept that is not well known is called Kaikaku, which means “radical improvement” (Womack 2003, 23). In my eyes, this expresses what OKRs are all about: creating breakthrough results that move the most important needle of your business.”
― Bart den Haak, Moving the Needle with Lean OKRs