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Measure What Matters

OKRs: The Simple Idea That Drives 10x Growth

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Measure What Matters

By: John Doerr
Narrated by: Alex Garden, Andrew Cole, Atticus Tysen, Bono, Brett Kopf, Cristos Goodrow, Jini Kim, John Doerr, Joseph Suzuki, Julia Collins, Mike Lee, Patti Stonesifer, Susan Wojcicki, William Davidow
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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 forty 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 fifty 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 organization'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 organizations.

This audiobook will show you how to collect timely, relevant data to track progress - to measure what matters. It will help any organization or team aim high, move fast, and excel.
'I'd recommend John's book for anyone interested in becoming a better manager', Bill Gates

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Incredibly powerful story backed with real examples and guest contributions. A must-read for entrepreneurial minds.

Transformative

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Very practical with testimonials and tips for me to use. Highly recommend to leaders who want to make a change in their work environment, cultures and values. OKRs, CFRs...interesting! Thanks

Simply amazing!

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I really liked this book, it was engaging, well paced, and very thought provoking. A good book for aspirational leaders.
Whilst it discussed what a good OKR does, at length, it did somewhat less well on concrete examples. The purpose is easier to grasp, the practice of writing them (what makes a good executable OKR) is far harder to get right.
Having said that, I would definitely recommend this book if you're considering rolling out OKRs.

Motivating, thought provoking, well read

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An interesting concept for prioritizing whats important and whats not. Though the whole book is repeating itself a lot just with different examples

valuable book!

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The struggles for people who genuinely want things done is often translating effort into tangible results. The fallacy we all face is often the misperception that being busy is conflated with achieving something. This book may not translate exactly 'how' must it illustrates with clarity why. Though the final chapter I found was a great instructional on how to incorporate OKRs and how to avoid some traps. In a data dense time it's great to be able to cut out white noise and focus on the things that drive value (however you percieve that). I just hope now I can get meaningful things done and cascade thay across everything I work on.

Must read for people who want results.

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