https://www.dignifiedproduct.com/blog daily 0.75 2024-02-23 https://www.dignifiedproduct.com/blog/friday-reflection-have-we-built-enough-value-yet monthly 0.5 2024-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63a0e89b5cae8b05787dfad6/b1f9021d-b7d8-4b61-b01a-7705ca547f54/Overnight+Building+Shareholder+Value.jpeg Blog - Friday Reflection: Have We Built Enough Value Yet? - Weekends are our battleground Remember, clocks? They are always ticking. It’s a reminder of the bomb of opportunity ready to explode into profits! While the world rests, we’re in the trenches, waging a war against the concept of downtime. “There’s still time until Sunday night,” we whispered to ourselves today. We all know, success is just one more caffeine-fueled sleepless weekend away! Zack and I have pledged that if we don’t deliver astronomical value by Monday, we might just hand in our resignation letters to ourselves. It’s this kind of pressure that truly tests our mettle and motivates us to keep going. 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In order to help you, I’ll provide you some examples on how I decided to do it! https://www.dignifiedproduct.com/blog/when-your-okrs-are-bad-but-you-need-to-commit-to-them-anyway-to-save-face monthly 0.5 2023-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63a0e89b5cae8b05787dfad6/532b9c3a-a993-4c88-8d3c-4f806cea902e/Brain+OKRs.jpg Blog - When Your OKRs are Bad But You Need to Commit to them Anyway to Save Face Look, there comes a time in your career where you realize you're going down the wrong path but you don't want to look stupid, so you run forward confidently. Let's paint you a picture: you forgot the deadline. Your OKR's are due tomorrow and you are presenting them at the Quarterly Business Review where a lot of the company executives are going to be challenging your process and making sure the case for your OKR's is air tight. (If you followed our OKR Guide, you should have an air tight case.) 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