Implementing OKRs: The Practitioner’s Guide for Executives, Managers and Team Leaders

Discover the practical leadership methods beyond the OKR hype

Sadly, 80% of all business strategies fail to meet their goals.

Finally, using this new book, you can bring your strategy down to the everyday life of your organization - with minimal resistance!

Every leader faces the same fundamental challenge: how to execute the strategy. The volatility and uncertainty of the current business environment made this challenge even more intense.

So do you, as a leader, get people to work towards common goals, keep them motivated and increase their receptivity to change?

The solution is a state-of-the-art goal-setting method called Objectives and Key Results, OKR for short. OKR transforms strategy into easy-to-understand goals the entire organization then works towards together – and succeeds!

The idea was originally made famous by Google, who say they reached tenfold success using OKRs. Nowadays OKRs are being used at top tier companies such as Twitter, Netflix, AirBnB, Renault, SAP and Samsung.

A growing number of companies, big and small, are currently speedign up their success using OKRs all around the world. In fact, this trend is fast becoming so promiment that OKR is now a mandatory part of a leader's toolbox.

This book goes beyond sharing mere inspirational stories about OKRs. If you want to implement and succeed with OKRs, this is the book you'll need.

This book walks you through the practical steps required to fully implement OKRs in your organization, and doesn't shy away from the sometimes sticky change management-related issues. It provides you with ease-to-understand examples and case studies from actual companies to help you transform the excitement into action and ultimate results.

Implementing OKRs was first published in Finnish and because of massive demand, it is now available in English and French. This book is intended for boards of directors and executive teams, leaders, change agents as well as OKR Coaches.

Authors Juuso Hämäläinen and Henri Sora have a long , esteemed history of working in leadership positions in the ICT sector. Between them, they have trained hundreds of people while implementing OKRs in the everyday life of various different organizations. They have a wide variety of clients including Fortune 100/500 companies, and bring their extensive in-the-trenches experience to you inside this groundbreaking, practical book.

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“Time to update your leadership toolbox? Diminish the pain of the strategy execution by learning about OKRs. – Read this concrete book which will save so much of your time.”
– Viljami Väisänen, Strategic Development & Deployment, Futurice