Are You Struggling to Scale Your Organization ? Need agility but dubious of process BS/dogma? I share reflective, pragmatic, principled takes on how to approach scaling your organization leveraging the essence (rather than theater) of product operating models, agile practices and frameworks, and business operating systems such as EOS and OKRs.
💡⚙️📈 Fix Your OKRs Using AI
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Please don’t write your OKRs using AI. OKRs should reflect YOUR strategy. Your choices. Your strong opinion. Your tradeoffs. What you CAN do is use AI to fix your OKRs. Here are some ways you could go about doing that:
Whatever way you create this prompt, I like to save it as context, for example, as instructions or a file attached to a Perplexity space. One of the advantages of this approach is that it works even when using an enterprise LLM, which is often more secure but weaker than publicly available ones. Once you create the prompt wherever you want, you can take it inside the firewall and use it on your enterprise OKRs without the risk of sharing your strategy and priorities with a public large language model (LLM). P.S. I’m creating a ‘Fix Your OKRs’ AI prompt swipe file. Join the waiting list to get it when it’s ready. Read Fixing Your OKRs Using AI On Your Browser Yours, |
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Are You Struggling to Scale Your Organization ? Need agility but dubious of process BS/dogma? I share reflective, pragmatic, principled takes on how to approach scaling your organization leveraging the essence (rather than theater) of product operating models, agile practices and frameworks, and business operating systems such as EOS and OKRs.
Is Human in the Loop the real goal with AI? It's a starting point, but I think the goal is to shift to Human in the Double Loop Maybe its even bigger than that. Maybe Agentic AI is the path to unlocking Human Agency A leader I talked to yesterday wasn't sure what their work will look like a year from now. We were finishing an AI coaching sprint in which they shifted from chatting with AI and using Claude Code for very specific tasks to unleashing agentic AI on several complex problems,...
Reader, I just wrapped up a great conversation with Clemens Adolphs, co-founder of AIce Labs, for the Scaling With Agility podcast. We dug into a question we both see more and more leaders wrestling with: Why do so many AI proof-of-concept projects look promising on paper, but never scale past the pilot? Clemens and I discussed some emerging practices for dealing with the pace and uncertainty of developing internal AI capabilities. Here are a few of the ideas we unpacked: — How to avoid the...
"Instead of Portfolio Management - Just Create Product Teams" - Have you heard that before, Reader? While I understand the angst against Portfolio Management Theater as a solution to Agile Theater... And while I agree wholeheartedly that the north star is to descale by reorganizing around value I find reality a bit more nuanced....Most leaders I encounter can't "just create product teams" their way out of decades of complex products and systems. None of them are Jeff Bezos - they don't have...