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Borough Market, art, and a terrific week of workshops with lots of new people!

Fantastic trip to Florence last week but brought back a nasty head cold.

This week was half term and we went to Florence!

Work(ish) I ran an OKR wrap-up session with a client and talked about the importance of lessons over scores.

Context Objectives and key results (OKRs) offer a refreshing opportunity for greater alignment, ownership, and game-changing impact across an entire organisation.

This week I facilitated a team’s second OKR check-in.

Lately I’m… May 2026 Working with a government department to build bespoke contacts & events tools Helping the Government Digital Service to enable widespread AI adoption across the public sector Living in North London with my wife and teenage son Learning

A few folks have asked how I started practicing Therevada Buddhism.

DISCLAIMER: I’m truly a novice.

This week I: Had a long chat with the CEO of a 30 year old company about how to ricochet draft OKRs around the org for feedback, inviting ownership and interpretation at every level without sacrificing focus.

Last week I attended a workshop about intimacy and consent organised by What Does Not and facilitated by Lidia Ravviso.

This week my wife went to Kosovo on a school trip and learned more in 5 days than I’ve learned in 40+ years.

Yes, there was some work… but more importantly, a trip to spain with some longtime friends!

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Work stuff Had a few good OKR check-ins with various clients this week.

Featuring: More tendering & biz-dev, a visit to the “fun” fair, Trying out publishing these on Friday to see if it makes the weekend more relaxed.

In this week’s notes we have public sector tendering, biking, two shows (Max Cooper & Underworld), and a visit to the Cutty Sark!

Time for another set of week notes.

I have this note stuck to the side of my monitor.

Lots of fun cultural stuff this week!

Work stuff I don’t get to say much about my clients but I’ve been working with a terrific company lately who are building the world’s leading environmental exchange.

I’ve always loved music.

I’m a messy reader.

Welcome to my first set of personal week notes!

Happy International Women’s Day!

My personal week notes Find them all here.

I’ve been coaching a team recently to help them work better together and I was struck by how particularly worn down and wary of change they were.

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Who is it for?

Who is it for?

OKRs are great for alignment, and improving delivery but they really shine as a learning framework.

Summary There are two ways to get people to do something: you can assign tasks to them, or you can wait for them to volunteer.

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Read about what I’m doing now and check out the current year in review.

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Welcome to the OKR Video Masterclass.

The OKR Quickstart Programme Since discovering OKRs in 2015, I’ve worked with thousands of people in hundreds of teams across dozens of organisations.

The autumnal equinox and the end of another quarter can only mean one thing: it’s time to look back at our OKRs and determine how we’ve done, what our performance says about our ability to impact our operating context, and what we might do next with respe…

Twenty years ago today, on a sunny Tuesday morning in September, I left my apartment in Brooklyn and headed to my office at 26th and Park Avenue South in Midtown Manhattan.

Bring on the wrist bands and glow-sticks!

2025 Update: I wrote about building an OKR community, a very specific type of chapter.

UPDATE - 24 Mar 2021: A revised version of this post has been published at What Matters.

I’ve become a fan of various routines to keep my life ticking over and save my decision-making power for things that really matter.

Success at 60%?

For teams (and entire organisations) adopting OKRs, it’s common for people to ask: “Should we have personal OKRs at the individual level in addition to our team OKRs?”

As the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to keep people at home and teams working remotely, I’ve been thinking more about how to support teams to do their best work during these challenging times.

Recently, I had the privilege of providing two full days of on-site coaching with 13 teams across an entire company that had just finished its first quarter with OKRs.