Adam Kalsey

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5 May 2006

Bit of housekeeping...

I’ve been fiddling with the way I post and display the shorter items on this blog. Recent;y I’ve been gathering them together and putting them in a single post, waiting until I had a half dozen or so before I published the entry. I’ve found that sometimes I’ll get one item in there and then go for days without putting anything else in, making the link old and stale by the time it gets published.

I’m now experimenting with publishing each small link separately and just displaying them on the blog in a single block. The side effect is that those of you reading this through an RSS reader will get lots of small posts instead of the single block. If I decide that I want to keep doing links this way, I might make changes to the feed to combine all of the day’s links into a single post.

So the real point of this post is to explain to those who read the site in a feed reader why they’re suddenly getting a lot of posts.

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Your OKR Cascade is Breaking Your Strategy
Aug 1: Most companies cascade OKRs down their org chart thinking it creates alignment. Instead, it fragments strategy and marginalizes supporting teams. Here's what works better than the waterfall approach.
Your Prioritization Problem Is a Strategy Problem
Jul 23: Most teams struggle with prioritization because they're trying to optimize for everything at once. The real problem isn't having too many options—it's not having a clear strategy to choose between them. Without strategy, every decision feels equally important. With strategy, most decisions become obvious.
Behind schedule
Jul 21: Your team is 6 weeks late and still missing features. The solution isn't working harder—it's accepting that your deadlines were fake all along. Ship what you have. Cut ruthlessly. Stop letting "one more day" turn into one more month.
VC’s Future Lies In Building Winners
Jun 21: AI and megafunds are about to kill the traditional venture model, forcing smaller VCs to stop hunting for hidden gems and start rolling up their sleeves to fix broken companies instead.
Should individual people have OKRs?
May 14: A good OKR describes and measures an outcome, but it can be challenging to create an outcome-focused OKR for an individual.
10 OKR traps and how to avoid them
May 8: I’ve helped lots of teams implement OKRs or fix a broken OKR process. Here are the 10 most common problems I see, and what to do instead.
AI is Smart, But Wisdom Requires Judgement
May 3: AI can process data at lightning speed, but wisdom comes from human judgment—picking the best imperfect option when facts alone don’t point the way.
Decoding Product Leadership Titles
Mar 18: Not all product leadership titles mean what they sound like. ‘Head of Product’ can mean anything from a senior PM to a true VP. Here’s how to tell the difference.

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