BOOKS ON OKRs
Objectives and Key Results; Paul Niven & Ben Lamorte
Objectives and Key Results is the first full-fledged reference guide on OKRs, a critical thinking framework designed to help organizations create value through focus, alignment, and better communication. You’ll learn how OKRs came to be and how leading companies use OKRs to help teams and employees stretch their thinking about what’s possible, build their goal-setting muscles and achieve results that reflect their full potential. From the basic framework to a detailed dissection of best practices, this informative guide walks you through real-world implementations to help you get the most out of OKRs. Includes detailed OKR case studies from FlipKart, Sears, Zalando, TaxSlayer, CareerBuilder, and GoNoodle!
Radical Focus; Christina Wodtke
Christina Wodtke, my OKRs colleauge, design expert, and overall amazing person published a highly readable OKRs book in a narrative style earlier in 2016. I’m hearing that this book is actually being given as a present for the holiday season!
The book features essays from several OKR experts. If you spot my essay in the book, send a note to [email protected] and let me know what you think!
Measure What Matters; John Doerr
John Doerr, Silicon Valley Legend, shares stories ranging from how he introduced OKRs to Google around a Ping Pong table to how Bono and the Gates Foundation use OKRs! Get this book immediately if you’re interested in learning about OKRs.
And, be sure to check out the audio version as well. Doerr is the narrator and you get to hear OKRs stories from the field spoken by various business leaders.
WHAT CLIENTS SAY?
JOHN HERBOLD
Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder
Ben is the epitome of an all-star coach. He’s incredibly perceptive, a great listener, very socratic in his approach, and laser focused on improving performance. Given how powerful OKRs are to the focus and productivity of an entire organization, I’d say Ben is the most valuable consultant I’ve ever hired.
Roger Fugett
CareerBuilder.com
CIO
It’s been enlightening working with Ben on our OKR framework. He is experienced and brings such to the table helping us learn very quickly. You witness his passion and thirst to perfecting his craft.
Roger Corn
OpenX
VP Corporate Development & Strategy
Ben’s real world experience with many companies helped establish realistic expectations for the program and his one-on-one meetings were very useful for creating OKRs.
Rachel Richter
Dun & Bradstreet
Senior Leader, Customer Analytics & Insights
Ben is a forward-thinking and collaborative business partner to Dun and Bradstreet. We regularly engage Ben for advice and guidance for all of our OKRs and priorities for Marketing. He has truly pushed our thinking and helped us establish meaningful and aspirational OKRs. We owe a lot of our success to Ben’s guidance and support.
Philip G. Clark, Ph.D.
3M
Technical Director
Ben brings his considerable experience working with a variety of clients to helping 3M identify how OKRs can be used within different teams and different situations. We particularly appreciated him helping us identify the “Why?” behind our objectives which in turn made us have stronger and more meaningful OKRs.
Brandon Hendrix
Thras.IO
VP Marketing
Dikran facilitated an effective and extremely informational OKRs workshop with our leadership team. He was able to quickly educate us on OKRs and was flexible as we applied OKRs questioning throughout the day. Dikran gave us what we needed to take a shot at running through the three steps of an OKRs cycle on our own.
Terry Copeland
Capture RX
VP Operations
Dikran helped us get OKRs implemented and on track. He was very engaging and quickly responded to questions. In a short period of time, it felt like he was part of our team, not an outside consultant.
Chris Mason, Ph.D.
Sears Holdings Corporation
Sr. Director / Head of Strategic Talent Solutions
I have been working with Ben for about six months to elevate our approach to OKRs at Sears Holding. Ben is an incredibly valuable resource. He’s been instrumental in coaching key leaders and even more valuable helping us identify common gaps in our approach today and helping us build better resources going forward.
Martin Betzwieser
Zalando Lounge/Outlet
Head of Finance & Customer Care
Ben provides ongoing support on introducing OKRs at Zalando in a very pragmatic way. He kicked-off Objectives & Key Results as a mindset shift. I highly recommend Ben as an enabler for organizational mindset changes regarding target setting – always a pleasure to cooperate with him!
Melanie Wessles
Booking.com
Agile Coach
Ben and I worked together on implementing OKRs at Booking.com. I really enjoyed our collaboration as Ben is very easygoing, helpful and patient… He is always happy to continue the discussion and help grow your OKR knowledge.
Seth Mulligan
TCGplayer.com
Operations Manager
Ben’s guidance, support materials, presentations and willingness to speak directly with our teams contributes hand-in-glove with TCGplayer’s ability to continue to scale up successfully. We are very happy to recommend Ben’s amazing OKR guru work, as he has helped us advance quickly in a short period of time.
Brian Fitzpatrick
Listen360
CEO
Ben has the rare combination of business acumen, passion, and knowledge to ask the right questions, provide unique insights, and guide a team of any size and/or maturity through the learning process. I would recommend him to any business that wants to empower their teams through a shared vision to ignite growth.
Dave Tucker
Workiva
Vice President, Engineering
Ben has helped us to rethink our approach to OKRs from the ground up. He has a unique ability to take what can be a very theoretical topic and make it very practical and straight forward. He has been a game changer for our organization.
JOHN HERBOLD
Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder
Ben is the epitome of an all-star coach. He’s incredibly perceptive, a great listener, very socratic in his approach, and laser focused on improving performance. Given how powerful OKRs are to the focus and productivity of an entire organization, I’d say Ben is the most valuable consultant I’ve ever hired.
Roger Fugett
CareerBuilder.com
CIO
It’s been enlightening working with Ben on our OKR framework. He is experienced and brings such to the table helping us learn very quickly. You witness his passion and thirst to perfecting his craft.
Roger Corn
OpenX
VP Corporate Development & Strategy
Ben’s real world experience with many companies helped establish realistic expectations for the program and his one-on-one meetings were very useful for creating OKRs.
Rachel Richter
Dun & Bradstreet
Senior Leader, Customer Analytics & Insights
Ben is a forward-thinking and collaborative business partner to Dun and Bradstreet. We regularly engage Ben for advice and guidance for all of our OKRs and priorities for Marketing. He has truly pushed our thinking and helped us establish meaningful and aspirational OKRs. We owe a lot of our success to Ben’s guidance and support.
Philip G. Clark, Ph.D.
3M
Technical Director
Ben brings his considerable experience working with a variety of clients to helping 3M identify how OKRs can be used within different teams and different situations. We particularly appreciated him helping us identify the “Why?” behind our objectives which in turn made us have stronger and more meaningful OKRs.
Brandon Hendrix
Thras.IO
VP Marketing
Dikran facilitated an effective and extremely informational OKRs workshop with our leadership team. He was able to quickly educate us on OKRs and was flexible as we applied OKRs questioning throughout the day. Dikran gave us what we needed to take a shot at running through the three steps of an OKRs cycle on our own.
Terry Copeland
Capture RX
VP Operations
Dikran helped us get OKRs implemented and on track. He was very engaging and quickly responded to questions. In a short period of time, it felt like he was part of our team, not an outside consultant.
Chris Mason, Ph.D.
Sears Holdings Corporation
Sr. Director / Head of Strategic Talent Solutions
I have been working with Ben for about six months to elevate our approach to OKRs at Sears Holding. Ben is an incredibly valuable resource. He’s been instrumental in coaching key leaders and even more valuable helping us identify common gaps in our approach today and helping us build better resources going forward.
Martin Betzwieser
Zalando Lounge/Outlet
Head of Finance & Customer Care
Ben provides ongoing support on introducing OKRs at Zalando in a very pragmatic way. He kicked-off Objectives & Key Results as a mindset shift. I highly recommend Ben as an enabler for organizational mindset changes regarding target setting – always a pleasure to cooperate with him!
Melanie Wessles
Booking.com
Agile Coach
Ben and I worked together on implementing OKRs at Booking.com. I really enjoyed our collaboration as Ben is very easygoing, helpful and patient… He is always happy to continue the discussion and help grow your OKR knowledge.
Seth Mulligan
TCGplayer.com
Operations Manager
Ben’s guidance, support materials, presentations and willingness to speak directly with our teams contributes hand-in-glove with TCGplayer’s ability to continue to scale up successfully. We are very happy to recommend Ben’s amazing OKR guru work, as he has helped us advance quickly in a short period of time.
Brian Fitzpatrick
Listen360
CEO
Ben has the rare combination of business acumen, passion, and knowledge to ask the right questions, provide unique insights, and guide a team of any size and/or maturity through the learning process. I would recommend him to any business that wants to empower their teams through a shared vision to ignite growth.
Dave Tucker
Workiva
Vice President, Engineering
Ben has helped us to rethink our approach to OKRs from the ground up. He has a unique ability to take what can be a very theoretical topic and make it very practical and straight forward. He has been a game changer for our organization.