Topic

OKRs

A guide to the best B2B podcast coverage of OKRs - the shows and 24 episodes that go deepest, ranked by substance, not downloads.

OKRs remain a central tool for aligning large organizations and executing strategy, but implementation often falls short of the promise. Episodes in this hub cover how companies like Atlassian use OKRs to keep thousands of people coordinated, why OKRs frequently don't get completed according to Noda's COO Zulema Quintans, and how leaders like Daniel Mälsjö approach making strategy actually work in practice - while Radhika Dutt argues it may be time to reconsider the framework altogether.

Best shows on OKRs

Arguing Agile
3 episodes · best 85.0/100
The Product Manager
1 episode · best 80.0/100
Practical Product Management
4 episodes · best 79.0/100
The Elephant in the Org
1 episode · best 78.0/100
The Peel with Turner Novak
1 episode · best 76.0/100
The Analytics Power Hour
1 episode · best 75.0/100
From Founder to Leader
1 episode · best 74.0/100
Built Not Born: The Startup Go-To-Market Podcast
1 episode · best 74.0/100

Best episodes on OKRs

AA260 - How Outcome-Based Goals Become a Permission Slip for Evil
Arguing Agile · 2026-06-03
85 / 100
…It seems to contradict where what I'm what I'm about to go into aside from like why another reason why I hate OKRs, which is like it's side tangent, but like indulge me for one second.…
The Most Misleading Plays in Product, Unmasked
The Product Manager · 2025-10-31
80 / 100
…What are some of the bigger offenders that you've seen around? I think one of my favorites is OKRs.…
Short on Time, High on Output - Speed, Strategy, and Success as an Interim Product Manager
Practical Product Management · 2024-11-06
79 / 100
…And you think their OKRs suck and you think it's just like everything.…
2025 - The Year We Fired OKRs - Radhika Dutt Brings the Matches
The Elephant in the Org · 2025-12-17
78 / 100
…And now I'm working on my next book which is about why goals, targets, okrs backfire and um, what actually works.…
Inside Elbow Grease, NYC's Hands-On Accelerator | Dan Teran, Gutter Capital
The Peel with Turner Novak · 2026-06-18
76 / 100
…Um, we're big believers in OKRs, which I know is a controversial topic.…
AA261 - The Business Was Dying While Every Dashboard Was Green
Arguing Agile · 2026-06-10
76 / 100
…In mid 80s, years before OKRs and whatever other buy my book system existed.…
#296: Avoiding Major Oopsies: Twyman's Law, Intuition, and Valuing Accuracy Over Precision
The Analytics Power Hour · 2026-04-28
75 / 100
…I had this happen with okrs once where I was working with someone who was.…
Leading your cross-disciplinary team, with Dr. Marinna Madrid of Cellino
From Founder to Leader · 2026-04-22
74 / 100
…you have a meeting structure? Do you have a way that you like set goals? Like what are the ways in which you actually get them to produce outcomes? We definitely have structured goals, so we do use okrs.…
172 Rejections Later: How Stuart Lombard Built ecobee Into a Smart Home Leader
Built Not Born: The Startup Go-To-Market Podcast · 2026-03-12
74 / 100
…And then we used okrs as sort of like our short term planning.…
From MVPs to FAFO - Iterations, courage, and what it really means to learn fast in Product.
Practical Product Management · 2025-09-10
74 / 100
AA256 - The AI PM Competency Trap: Why AI Tools Won't Save Your Product Career
Arguing Agile · 2026-04-08
73 / 100
…But remember because we're doing OKRs and they're all based on nonsense anyway.…
Judgment in the Age of AI with John Cutler
Unlearn · 2026-06-24
72 / 100
…Uh, okrs are a great example.…
GovTech, Outcomes, & Impact - Building Meaningful Products in High-Stakes Environments
Practical Product Management · 2025-03-26
71 / 100
…Um, it's not that I'm obsessed about, you know, okrs as a framework.…
How Atlassian uses OKR to Keep 15,000 People Aligned with Amber Morey-Wu
Strategy Candy
68 / 100
…Welcome to Strategy Candy, the podcast that's all about doing better work with a great strategy, achieving audacious goals, using OKRs and building products people love.…
High Impact Discovery with Scott Colfer (Herd Consulting)
byProduct Live · 2024-12-13
67 / 100
…There's products often talked about using the hard skills of OKRs and roadmaps and yada yada.…
Product Leaders Should be Good People Managers with Jean McCabe, Chief Innovation Officer and Chief Product Officer at Agio
Product Leaders Podcast · 2023-04-25
66 / 100
…And is there like any differences managing product teams and UX teams? Because in terms of vision and goals, I think at some point everyone is facing like one goal or have owners mutual okrs or something like that.…
Zulema Quintans, COO of Noda, on Why Your OKRs Don't Get Done
Between Two COO's with Michael Koenig · 2026-07-02
66 / 100
…You're the one driving okrs.…
Eliminating Bad Execution: Making Strategy Work with Daniel Mälsjö
Strategy Candy
64 / 100
…Welcome to Strategy Candy, the podcast that's about doing better work with great strategy, setting and achieving audacious goals, using OKRs and building products that people love.…
Demystifying OKRs: Practical Insights for Product Managers
Practical Product Management · 2024-07-24
64 / 100
…Theory is great, but we need to talk about how do you take theory and make it practical? And I think today we want to talk about OKRs and metrics and what that looks like for product people, and also how it rolls into broader organizations and building work structures.…
Why Your Next PM Job Depends More on Culture Than Compensation
Fireside Product Management · 2026-01-05
60 / 100
…for large companies in Mexico where we helped them implement the different frameworks so they could measure, describe, measure and implement strategy like balance, scorecard, Balance Scorecard, okrs, and other frameworks.…
Product Development with Purpose: Building a Winning Mindset and Core Principles for Success with Eric Leach, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Strata Identity
Product Leaders Podcast · 2023-04-11
51 / 100
…OKRS is one of them you mentioned early on, right.…
With AI, Everyone is Ironman
Future Of Work Mastery · 2026-06-30
51 / 100
…Um, and when that communication is not clear, like, how does this tie into your okrs and your roadmaps, Things go awry and you end up building stuff that's not needed or take too long.…
Episode 312: Ben Lamorte, Founder of OKRs.com - Choosing Alignment Over Assignment and Finding the Power of OKR’s.
Sales Leadership Podcast · 2025-05-08
E67: Incorporating AI in Nonprofit Strategic Planning with Michael Burns
Lead with Heart · 2024-11-19