Deidre Paknad
Where there’s a culture of compliance, where everybody gets paid for coming in on 100 percent of their numbers, there you have a deeply ingrained mindset that aims for safety, not for great. In this case it’s optimizing for personal income, as opposed to optimizing for the acceleration of the organization. There’s real work to overcome the mindset of everybody optimizing for their paycheck, instead … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Deidre Paknad | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Organizational Behavior
Deidre Paknad
In transformation, every organization looks like a start-up, learning each quarter as it drives a new business model in new sectors, and operates in new ways. The conditions in large enterprise look very much like the conditions have always looked in a young company trying to create a segment or a category or launch a new product.
Content: Quotation | Author: Deidre Paknad | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Change Management
Deidre Paknad
A way to think about KPIs is that they’re operating metrics. There are dashboards of them, millions of them in big companies. They tell us where we are.
The big difference with OKRs is, of the million things we could measure this quarter, on a certain five or ten measures, we want to move the needle, and this is how far we want the needle to … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Deidre Paknad | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Management