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Measure What Matters
Measure What Matters: How Bono, the Gates Foundation, and Google Rock the World with OKRs | Kris Duggan, John Doerr
Legendary venture capitalist John Doerr reveals how OKRs have helped tech giants from Intel to Google exceed all expectationsand how they can help any organization thrive In the fall of 1999, John Doerr met with the founders of a start-up hed just given $11.8 million, the biggest investment of his career. Larry Page and Sergey Brin had amazing technology, entrepreneurial energy, and sky-high ambitions, but no real business plan. For Google to change the world (or even to survive), Page and Brin had to learn how to make tough choices on priorities while keeping their team on track. Theyd have to know when to pull the plug on losing propositions, to fail fast. And they needed timely, relevant data to track their progressto measure what mattered. Doerr taught them about a proven approach to operating excellence: Objectives and Key Results. He had first discovered OKRs in the 1970s as an engineer at Intel, where Andy Grove (the greatest manager of his or any era) drove the best-run company Doerr had ever seen. Later, as a venture capitalist, Doerr shared Groves brainchild with more than fifty companies. Wherever the process was faithfully practiced, it worked. The rest is history. With OKRs as its management foundation, Google has grown from forty employees to more than 70,000with a market cap exceeding $600 billion. In the OKR model, objectives define what we seek to achieve; key results are how those top-priority goals will be attained with specific, measurable actions within a set time frame. Everyones goals, from entry-level to CEO, are transparent to the entire organization. The benefits are profound. OKRs surface an organizations most important work. They focus effort and foster coordination. They keep employees on track. They link objectives across silos to unify and strengthen the entire company. Along the way, OKRs enhance workplace satisfaction and boost retention. In Measure What Matters, Doerr and coauthor Kris Duggan share a broad range of first-person, behind-the-scenes case studies, with narrators including Bono and Bill Gates, to demonstrate the focus, agility, and explosive growth that OKRs have spurred at so many great organizations. This book will help a new generation of leaders capture the same magic.
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magiczhao
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Currently reading Measure What Matters by John Doerr.

A must read for anyone who wants to see some objectives(professionally or personally) and work towards achieving it!

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Adding this #Nonfiction #business book to my #TBR stack for #NFNov.
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An easily digestible introduction to the simple yet effective management strategy.

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Ugh. I noped my way out of this the minute he told the story of how stalking his ex-girlfriend led to a great Silicon Valley opportunity.

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