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Turning Vision into Reality: How OKRs Drive Strategic Execution

In today’s fast-paced business world, having a clear vision is crucial—but it’s not enough on its own. To transform that vision into reality, organizations need a robust strategy and a practical framework to drive day-to-day operations. Enter Objectives and Key Results (OKRs): a powerful tool for aligning teams around a shared vision and translating strategic…
How to manage frustration by Michael Kaplan

Everything that causes you frustration can be brought into one of 3 buckets: When you’re feeling frustration, if you can figure out which bucket that thing is in, then you can very quickly figure out which action you need to take. The full podcast with Michel Kaplan, Director, Agency Business Development at Google, can be…
A Plan Is Not a Strategy by Roger Martin

A comprehensive plan—with goals, initiatives, and budgets–is comforting. But starting with a plan is a terrible way to make strategy. Developing strategy means going outside an organization’s comfort zone and escaping the common traps of strategic planning. Roger Martin, is the former dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and…
The Indispensable Role of Middle Management: Bridging Vision and Execution

In today’s fast-paced, ever-evolving business world, it’s easy to focus on top leadership and the workforce as the primary drivers of success. But in reality, there’s a critical layer that often goes under-appreciated: middle management. These managers are the connecting tissue between leadership’s high-level vision and the people responsible for executing it. Without strong middle…
Teamwork: What Is Behind Greatness

I wonder why stories always get focused on oneIt’s easy to see the leader at the frontEven if that leader is guiding from the backThe story of one still formsBut what’s truly behind it all?It’s Teamwork We want to remember the legendsAnd of course with shouldExtraordinary people can do extraordinary thingsBut rarely on their ownBehind…
Happiness

Happiness is neither a good nor reliable goal to strive for. It is unrealistic to feel happy all of the time—even if so much of our culture tells you otherwise. Better is to strive for meaning, mastery, and belonging, and let periodic happiness be a byproduct of those pursuits. Brad Stulberg