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Measure What Matters
- OKRs: The Simple Idea That Drives 10x Growth
- Narrated by: Jini Kim, Susan Wojcicki, Alex Garden, Andrew Cole, Cristos Goodrow, Patti Stonesifer, Mike Lee, Bono, William Davidow, Joseph Suzuki, Atticus Tysen, Brett Kopf, John Doerr, Julia Collins
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Categories: Business & Careers, Business Development & Entrepreneurship
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Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
Instant New York Times best seller.
The revolutionary movement behind the explosive growth of Intel, Google, Amazon and Uber.
With a foreword by Larry Page and contributions from Bono and Bill Gates.
Measure What Matters is about using Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), a revolutionary approach to goal-setting, to make tough choices in business.
In 1999, legendary venture capitalist John Doerr invested nearly $12 million in a startup that had amazing technology, entrepreneurial energy and sky-high ambitions, but no real business plan. Doerr introduced the founders to OKRs and with them at the foundation of their management, the startup grew from 40 employees to more than 70,000 with a market cap exceeding $600 billion. The startup was Google.
Since then Doerr has introduced OKRs to more than 50 companies, helping tech giants and charities exceed all expectations. In the OKR model objectives define what we seek to achieve and key results are how those top priority goals will be attained. OKRs focus effort, foster coordination and enhance workplace satisfaction. They surface an organisation's most important work as everyone's goals from entry-level to CEO are transparent to the entire institution.
In Measure What Matters, Doerr shares 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 organisations.
This audiobook will show you how to collect timely, relevant data to track progress - to measure what matters. It will help any organisation or team aim high, move fast, and excel.
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- Rick
- 16-08-19
Too many anecdotes
Most of this book it's taken up with anecdotes of various companies having implemented the system. That's great to know but the whole book is filled with it, chapter after chapter.
My advice is to skip to the last chapter as it then finally actually tells you how to implement the system. But only listen to the first half of that chapter though as the last half is literally just the author thanking all of the contributors!
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- Sunil Hareendran
- 11-05-19
objectives, key results
culture is the medium for okrs and cfrs to thrive. need to take good care where the organization lean the ladder on the wall. if it is not the right wall you lead the team to wrong direction. okrs are not the silver bullet. sound business judgment and engagement lead to success.
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- Lisa
- 02-06-19
OKRs and how to make them work in detail
Great narration, enjoyed the many voices of contributors telling their own (companies') stories. The book offered a steep learning curve in the beginning, filling in smaller details towards the end.
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- jc
- 13-11-18
Well worth a listen
Being relatively new to this approach, I’m a big fan of OKRs. I’ve watched some of John’s YouTube stuff and love his approach and his extensive knowledge. His delivery/recording of the book is surprisingly shoddy but get over it, it’s not so distracting that you can’t listen to it and there is some good stories in here, albeit a bit repetitive in message.
Enjoy it.
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- MB
- 19-03-20
Read the High Output Management rather than this b
I run a small business and was keen to learn more about OKRs. However, this book disappointed as it was essentially just a long winded introduction into original source - Andy Grove's book "High Output Management". The book praises the method but I have no idea how to approach it in practice. It is also a bit ironic that Zume is presented as a great success while the company has nosedived since the book was published. I have to credit narration of the book though as multiple voices give it an extra spin.
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- Konrad
- 08-08-19
Transformative
Incredibly powerful story backed with real examples and guest contributions. A must-read for entrepreneurial minds.
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- Cebe Seren
- 04-05-19
Great audiobook however difficult to use without physical book
I would have liked to have read this to make notes. Hard to do so while listening in car!
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- Michail P.
- 31-01-21
Inspiring but vague
The book had a lot of interesting stories regarding OKRs, but it left me clueless on how to properly apply it for my team and myself. While listening, I kept waiting for the practical tips to make it work. Unfortunately, they never came.
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- John-Paul M.
- 29-01-21
Great book on OKRs and goal setting
I loved the examples and practicality of this book. Very tactical and easy to digest. Most books on strategic alignment and organisation are very theory driven, this one was very practical.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-01-21
great book
great book, easy to listen to, interesting and relevant content, would recommend to a friend
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- Greg
- 10-04-20
Only real 5 out of 5
This is the only true 5 out of 5 book. This is my first read, but about to buy the paper copy to do a deep dive and become an “evangelist”.
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- Whalan
- 24-10-20
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Absolutely wonderful...! The content of the book was really insightful. Performance, although different was good.
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- Oluwakorede Asuni
- 31-01-20
Awesome take on goals!
Will take the nuggets here with me in my practise as a people leader and entrepreneur.
This codifies everything that is wrong with performance Management and sets forward an awesome, yet practical and measurable approach for setting gos, translating these into actionable that everybody can get excited about and rally to achieve and to measure the entire journey, to know when a goal has been achieved and thus redirect resources to other goals or set new ones; or to know when a goal is no longer achieveable or relevant.
Thanks John for the gift of these insights!
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- Anonymous User
- 06-12-19
Inspiring stuff
Loved the book. Hearing the business leaders speaking was a great way to ingest the story. You can feel the passion John has for this topic. The OKR CFR tool can be such a powerful way to motivate and align people to achieve more.
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- mcampello
- 03-10-19
A must read for all transformators
If you ever thought about having a role in the transformation of a band of people into high productivity teams, this is a must read for you.
The cadence, examples and situations described give you a clear view of how to implement, test, scale and take advantage of this methodology.
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- Cliente Amazon
- 17-04-19
Inspirational book
This book guides us on how to connect strategies to operational actions. Several great leaders tell us their experiences in implementing OKRs. Great book!
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- Vasan2k
- 04-03-19
Easy to relate and would love to practice it
I could relate the concepts in this book to Hoshin Kanri method of strategic deployment that I learned earlier. This OKR concept is much easier to explain and has more flexibility in deploying sideways across the org where work needs to be done inspire of silos. Am eager to put it in practice and hope to reap the benefits of this system.
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- James Twidale
- 05-01-19
Excellent
For all those who want to improve their performance this is a must read.
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