Vision + OKR's The magic of clarity through goals

Today’s experimental podcast is a conversational overview of the topics I explored in my article on goal setting. If all goes well it will be the first of a series recapping my most helpful articles. Yes AI was used - but it’s not sludge. It’s just a different way of experiencing work written 100% by a human (me). That work summarizes a series of tools I’ve seen yield breakthrough focus and performance in both startups and some of the world’s largest companies.

Listening to this dynamic retelling (by AI) of my vision and goals article gave me a whole new perspective on my own writing. I hope it will be enjoyable and valuable to others.

Goal setting is a much suggested best practice - and it’s also one with a lot of anti-patterns that cause real problems for many organizations. It’s surprisingly easy to get very wrong. Setting great goals is something that can be learned - and the leverage for individuals and organizations that master it can be huge. I hope you’ll give a listen - or if you’re so inclined click through and read the original posting that inspired it.

I’ve learned and refined the tools described from multiple job experiences combined with reading a fair number of books and articles on the topic. I’m pretty sure these methods are applicable for a wide array of domains and problems.

If your organization would like to have a deeper discussion or enlist some ongoing help in this area please reach out.

A bit about this podcast; The audio was generated using Google’s Notebook LLM product with limiting prompting. I have a shorter version as well that I will publish in the next few days - or not depending on feedback. :-)

There’s lots more of this stuff - but with just written words over at RandomWalkThroughTech.com. If you enjoyed this I encourage you to subscribe for future articles and jump over to the main Substack to read more.