Resources to run a better business.

Discover how Del Mar Vacation Rentals partnered with Crews & co. to implement the consultancy’s Growth Method and develop strategies for success.

With this OKR implementation guide, we’ll demystify the process of implementing OKRs throughout your company, providing you and your leadership team with practical steps and change management strategies for integrating this methodology into your organizational fabric.

Here, we’ll compare all three methodologies and explain where they overlap and where they differ. We’ll also show you why, at Crews and co., we use OKRs for our internal teams and our clients.

In this article, we’ll show you, step-by-step, how to set quarterly OKRs that facilitate the realization of your Annual Objectives, 3 Year Objectives, and, ultimately, your North Star or 10-year goal.

Last week, I wrote about the challenges of receiving feedback from your team. Today, I want to talk about a different kind of feedback: the kind that comes from your trusted advisors. The clients who inspired this post are the ones who have boards. But the advice applies to any company with any kind of advisors.

Leading a business takes courage. It also requires you to balance being vulnerable and having a thick skin. Every quarter, we solicit feedback from our consulting team. And every quarter, we go through the somewhat painful exercise of reviewing that feedback. This review forces our leadership team to hear things that do not feel great to hear. But it’s one of the most important things we can do to keep evolving the company.

I’m in the middle of a 10-year plan, and the older I get, the more clarity I have on what I need to accomplish in that time frame. There’s no way to do everything. What do I need or want to do most?

Being a goldfish means living without baggage. You might get upset. But then you get over it. You focus on moving forward and what’s ahead. Every day—or maybe 100 times a day—you reset. It sounds naive. But it’s a surprising prescription for happiness.

Maybe it’s the long, gray days. Maybe it’s the holiday season. But I’ve found myself reflecting on the past recently. Every day, there’s more past to look back on. I’ve accomplished a lot in my five-ish decades so far. I’m proud of what I’ve done. Even the mistakes have turned into valuable life lessons.