Weekly wrap-up #3

A weekly summary of posts I've published on Focus on outcomes, the newsletter for Software Product Leaders seeking to be outcome-oriented.

Shane Parrish @ShaneAParrish

We waste years because we cannot waste hours.

This week’s posts

• "Sorry we are too busy to help you" explores why even teams working on the top priority can’t always get the help they need.

• Not all approaches to OKRs are the same (and some are better than others) There are lots of variations of how to do OKRs online. What to be aware of when choosing resources to use.

• Don’t start your OKR journey with an OKR tool It seems logical that capturing and sharing OKRs will take some time so a tool will help, right? The reality is quite different as covered in this post.

• Common problems in OKR reference material continuing the theme of the quality of OKR reference material, here are some specific gaps to look out for.

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Lee Gonzales (He/Him) @leegonzales

@HiredThought Boyd made it really clear with his "Orient" function in OODA that making your mental model explicit rather than tacit, and curating those models is a key to survival and winning.