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Being a scaleup leader can feel like herding cats.- You’re growing, that’s great.- But your growth brings problems.- You have more people but they get less done.- Autonomy used to work, now there is misalignment.- People get in each other’s way
Christian Meinerding is the Co-Founder and CEO of HiveMQ, a company he founded 11 years ago. He told me about his experience growing a business from scratch, raising a €40 million series A for a total of €50 million raised and growing the team
This week I'm joined by Marc Sniukas. Marc is a strategy advisor and he helps CEOs and leadership teams design and execute better strategy.We discuss why strategy can become a big complex monster and how to prevent that. And Marc reveals the
Team meetings feeling lacklustre and unproductive? Do they often turn into lengthy sessions of updates that leave everyone feeling bored and frustrated?The problem is most likely that you're using a people-driven approach in your meetings. Th
Zoltan Vardy is a startup mentor who helps B2B tech founders struggling with sales to sell and market to enterprise clients. We had a great discussion about:Not adapting for every client to actually help them make a choice.Choosing your b
Many of my clients have had a bad experience of OKRs before working with me. And I noticed that the reasons they had been failing were the same.So I dug out all my past client notes, went through them meticulously gathering the most common mis
What remote working teams lack is remote collaboration - a place where people informally put forward ideas, get input, rework them, agree, disagree and come to an agreement!To create this, we need a fresh approach - something other than Zoom m
Unless you plan HOW you’re going to execute on your OKRs after you’ve set them, you probably won’t achieve them.But this is where I see a lot of my clients stumbling and making one of these mistakes:They set OKRs and think they’re done.
It seems logical. You've got company level OKRs and team OKRs, so it would make sense to have individual OKRs, right?Wrong. Because...They undermine the benefit of cross-functional alignment you get from company and team OKRs. Managers a
Too often a business strategy consists only of 6 or 7 strategic pillars. So when it comes to writing OKRs, people have difficulty. Why? Because pillars don't tell you what to do next. They don't help you work out what the steps are to achieve y
Nick Burne is on a mission to help nonprofits large and small grow their fundraising on social platforms with his company, GivePanel.Nick started GivePanel in 2019 with one employee. Fast forward to 2023 and he now employees 30 people across 5
Nikos Kryvossidis is the best manager I never had (he was my boss’s boss at Google, so not technically my manager)He had a knack for inspiring great loyalty among his team…protecting them from bureaucratic overloadAnd helping them be effic
Join me and Michal Bohanes on this episode as we go back to basics with OKRs.We’ll be covering✅ exactly what OKRs are✅ why you should use them to track your goals✅ how they fit in with your company strategy and vision✅ and exactly how yo
Join me to learn what OKRs are, why use them, how to use them and how to get started. We'll go through the basics of OKRs and break some of the most common misconceptions that hold people back.At the end of this episode, I'll be offering some
Ever been in a situation where your team is in conflict with another team, perhaps over shared resources, and you can't resolve it?Here's how to make progress using a simple document and meeting format that will not only unblock the stalemate
Ben Legg is the co-founder of The Portfolio Collective, a company that helps people build portfolio careers and helps companies hire fractional talent. He works with startups, investors and thought leadership.In our interview he talks to me ab
In this episode I go through my 5-step process for the execution of OKRs.You've got your OKRs set up, and now it's time to do the work and actually execute them.In this episode I cover:Planning - A basis for changeReviewing - Iterate and so
These are questions I collected over the last weeks from comments and questions asked by future and current clients.0:04:20 - My CEO is incompetent. What should I do?0:10:10 - How can I use OKRs to measure productivity objectively?0:15:13 -
I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Allan Boyle of Saltwater Consulting. Allan helps Technology companies Scale Well, and we are both Amazon alumni, so it was good to catch up with him and discuss OKRs in the Scaleup context. Find All
I was asked by a client (a large multinational) to hold a Q&A on OKRs. They have a large team of OKR coaches and wanted my perspective on several issues they were dealing with. __________The Scaleup Leader is a podcast about helping fast-gro
Amanda Colpoys knows how to 👉 remain nimble at scale. 👈She has helped grow Moonpig, Gousto and OVO to unicorn status.Here’s what we discussed:👉 What lack of strategy does to your focus👉 How to create and maintain alignment (OKRs may h
What are the root causes for people problems in Scaleups?I will be talking all things Team & Peoplewith my friend and former colleague Janie Links.Janie started her career 20 years ago as a headhunter.And her roster of clients and empl
Dora Nagy has worked at Google in Product Marketing and Global Sales Strategy and Operations, and at SoftBank and Kheiron Medical as Chief of Staff. She's an accomplished executive coach for high-growth startups.Dora and I discuss what a Chie
It's time for a Q&A. These are question I collected over the last weeks from comments and questions asked by future and current clients. 0:01:47 Our output metrics take more than a quarter to see a change - how do we set OKRs for such a short
So you’re half-way through the quarterShould you check in on the progress of your OKRs? That’s what we cover in this episode:✅ How to check if you're on track✅ What to do if you aren’t✅ How to run a meeting usefully✅ How to manage expe
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