How do you handle competing stakeholder OKRs or incentives that misalign with the GTM strategy, and how do you reset them?
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Anthropic Startup Marketing Lead | Formerly Lyft, Atlassian • 1mo
Get everyone in the same place.. a room, a doc, a Slack channel, whatever works and have a direct, honest conversation about what you're actually trying to accomplish tog...
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Apollo.io Head of Product Marketing | Formerly Apollo.io, Zendesk, LiveRamp, Nielsen • 1mo
Here’s the thing - competing goals/OKRs/incentives across teams is a structural problem that PMM will rarely be able to solve alone. The best you can do is to make the tr...
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Salesforce CMO - Next Gen Platform • 1mo
One of the things I appreciate most about Salesforce is the V2MOM framework — Vision, Values, Methods, Obstacles, Measures. It sounds like a planning doc but it's really ...
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Freshworks Sr. Director of Enterprise Marketing • 1mo
In the enterprise, misalignment usually stems from activity-based OKRs (counting tasks) rather than outcome-based OKRs (measuring impact). For example, PR may be incentiv...
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Braze Director, Product Marketing | Formerly Intuit, Quickbase, Acquia • 1mo
I prioritize based on business impact, customer needs, and alignment with strategic goals. I make sure the team is clear on both short-term OKRs and long-term vision, so ...
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