On Living the OKR Life

Did you know it’s impossible to scale a belief without a system? To live an OKR life, you must have a system that focuses on what’s important and work towards achieving it. 

In this episode of Dreams with Deadlines, Jenny speaks with David Anderson, an OKR Systems Coach at Auxin OKR. He's passionate about the environment and plans to grow the world’s largest electric bike company. He explains why it is important for a company to have great culture allied with OKRs to pass a good feeling within the working environment.

Listen in to learn about Blue Zone, how it relates to OKRs, and what it means to live the OKR life. You will also learn why company culture is shaped by who you hire, fire, reward, and reprimand. 

“It’s so important if you’re going to grow a company to have great culture allied with OKRs.” — David [20:25]

Show notes

• [2:55] David on his background in the tech industry and how it led to starting Auxin OKR. 
• [4:09] Why they named their business Auxin, which is about enabling change and growth. 
• [6:17] How to live the OKR life by focusing on what’s personally important and making sure you’re doing something about it.
• [9:56] How to scale the strategy by first scaling belief through a system.
• [15:18] The challenge of urgently and forcefully changing behaviors, that organizations faced during the pandemic.
• [17:14] The Blue Zone of OKR – making people happy and places happy to work.
• [23:32] He explains his experience with how both small and large companies behave after adopting OKRs.
• [27:04] He relates Motocross racing with business in how they keep looking at what’s in Infront of them.
• [28:26] David answers more quick-fire questions.

Relevant links

• Ride Electric
• Blue Zones
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by James C. Collins