Welcome to the Evolutionary OKRs®️ Blog

Here, you’ll find resources we create to help teams create, implement, and operationalize Evolutionary OKRs to achieve transformation and innovation in your organization and our systems.

We explore:

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OKRs in Context: Do OKRs co-exist with other methodologies?

One of the first jobs to be done when implementing (or rebooting) OKRs is to identify how they fit into an organization’s existing planning “stack” and get clear about what job they’re being hired to do.

This episode is based on chapter three of Sara Lobkovich’s upcoming book, The Evolutionary OKRs Playbook, which focuses on what is possible with Evolutionary OKRs®.

You’ll be introduced to the first of three models that Sara uses every day in her work with organizations implementing OKRs: the Connected Strategic® Implementation Stack.

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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: Evolutionary OKRs. Evolutionary OKRs are designed to create meaningful change and help organizations transform and actually do better.

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The Connected Strategic™ Stack

Every organization has a strategic implementation stack (and some have more gaps and holes than others).

Start here to assess your organization’s, then craft a plan to fill the most important gaps to help your organization connect implementation to strategy.

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Leading Change

The leader’s role is to operate in the most complicated intersections of their organization’s Venn diagrams. We must project optimism and confidence to internal and external stakeholders. And, we must also recognize and address risks and pain points in ways that may call for curiosity and vulnerability.

These resources help (sometimes frustrated) leaders of change get curious about their organizations’ frictions and build leadership habits designed to walk the talk of transformation.

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OKR Objectives FAQ
Sara Lobkovich Sara Lobkovich

OKR Objectives FAQ

I’m determined to create as comprehensive of an OKRs FAQ as possible: I spend most days answering questions about OKRs, so why not write as many of those answers down as possible? Here, we’ll dive into some of the questions I’ve been asked about the “O” in “OKRs:” OKR Objectives.

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WTF are OKRs?
Sara Lobkovich Sara Lobkovich

WTF are OKRs?

Don’t know an OKR from a KPI from any other TLA? Dive into the world of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) with our no-nonsense WTF are OKRs guide. You’ll find basic words, meanings, and context about when and how OKRs are useful, and access No-BS OKR cheat-sheets not available anywhere else

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Planning your OKR Reset
Sara Lobkovich Sara Lobkovich

Planning your OKR Reset

How to plan an effective and efficient OKR reset that maximized learnings gathered from the past cycle, to inform the adjustments you make to your OKRs going forward.

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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