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Minto Pyramid Principle
By Barbara Minto
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MentionsThe ultimate guide to OKRs
“maybe think about the Minto Pyramid. Do you know much about it?”
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Anchor the Pitch to the Exec's Incentives
Find the metric, OKR, or board pressure they own, then show how your idea moves it.
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Commit-and-Celebrate Weekly Cadence
Bookend every week with Monday commitments and Friday celebrations, tracked by a short weekly status.
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Follow the Breadcrumbs and Calibrate Urgency
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Hand-wave the OKR score; spend your energy on the retrospective 'why' behind it.
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Hook-Middle-End Story Structure
Package your message as a story with a hook, a middle that hides the message, and a celebratory end — then ask how to make it better.
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Pilot-With-Your-Best-Team Rollout
Don't roll OKRs out company-wide; hand the book to your strongest team, let them adapt it, then spread by twos.
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Shrink the Change to Build Trust
De-risk a scary idea into a two-week experiment with a fixed check-in date.
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Stewart Plus Two More
Never bring one option; show a Goldilocks three and hold the rest in the appendix.
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The 60-Second Meeting Reset
Buy a context-starved exec 30 seconds of orientation before you pitch.
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Themes for Discussion at the Top of the Doc
Bubble up the spiciest 3 topics live; answer the hundred nitpicks offline.
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The Mission-to-Monday Cascade
Translate a 5-year mission down through strategy and quarterly OKRs into what you actually do this week.
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The Three-Peer 24-Hour Approval
Replace slow top-down OKR sign-off with three peers who sanity-check your goals in a 24-hour turnaround.
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Treat the Executive as Your Key User
Run stakeholder conversations as discovery interviews, not approval requests.
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Triangulated Key Results
Measure one quarterly objective from three angles — a hard number, a squishy quality metric, and a dollar figure.
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