So I'm finally building a few (secure, bespoke) AI-assisted workflows into my client work after hearing from a shocking percentage of employees at client orgs that they're using personal GPT accounts to support their OKR efforts because they don't have corp access. EEP.
It's been a wild Q1 ... incredible client work, a few highlights on the book front, and an unplanned website migration (which took me down the Claude Code rabbithole after 25 years away from coding -- my oh my how times have changed).
✨ I've always said that if I don't train agents on my IP someone else will ... and they are.
It's been a minute, so -- hi! I'm Sara Lobkovich. I help organizations stop struggling with OKR implementations and strategy operations that aren't working, and start doing less to achieve more. Stick around for updates and resources for ambitious, visionary CEOs, strategic force multipliers, and people who want to operate more strategically in their careers. For more information, I'll link my website and book in the comments, below!
I've been writing like mad, so if I can just dial down my perfectionism enough to hit "publish," you'll see excerpts here on LinkedIn, with some new work on my blog. From my new "what actually gets an OKR?" model to my POV on what genAI can and can't do in the OKR space, to an actual peek inside an OKR onboarding engagement flow (that might surprise you).
Teams that do OKRs well don’t try to measure everything; they prioritize goals that genuinely move the needle in terms of progress, and toward important outcomes.
Read more 👉 https://lttr.ai/AjWQh
"If your organization had a human body, KPIs would be like its vital signs—the metrics you monitor to make sure everything's functioning properly."
Read more 👉 https://lttr.ai/AjqIv
You can't do #userResearch to "validate your assumptions."
Research reveals just how wrong you are. It *absolutely* does not indicate how right you were.
You need #OKRs or some other framework for that.
High-performing teams and organizations often drive success by leveraging key performance indicators (KPIs) and objectives and key results (OKRs).
In a healthy OKR implementation, senior leadership writes their own OKRs and participates fully in the methodology.
Read more 👉 https://lttr.ai/Ahd1P
Simple doesn't mean superficial or not strategic. It means using what we have, being creative with what we don't, and reducing the time and money spent on creating and operating OKRs so we have more to devote to achieving them.
That's what I do: make strategy (and OKRs) that actually gets used. I described it today on a call with a new biz friend as:
Strategy that survives intersection with reality.
Sara Lobkovich, J.D., NBC-HWC
David O'Brien
Scott M. Graffius