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Measure What Matters
- OKRs: The Simple Idea That Drives 10x Growth
- 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
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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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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"I'd recommend John's book for anyone interested in becoming a better manager." (Bill Gates)
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- Anonymous User
- 21-03-21
Very good advice, unnecessarily long manuscript
It reminds me of Ritch Dad Por Dad.. the basic idea is good, and quite simple... so the book is unnecessarily long
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- danh80i
- 26-02-20
Highest rate management insight
Left inspired by the achievements of those using OKRs. Probably a little long on the car study content for me. Would have preferred it more concise. Well worth listening for all those set in making more of their professional lives.
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- Tafka
- 01-08-22
A useful listen
Stories got a bit samey - reluctance at first, company changed, good things happen. You can't argue with the results though. There are certainly some quotable lines in there.
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- Farrukh
- 05-01-20
A Masterpiece for startups and other organizations
In this exceptional piece, Johen Doerr has presented the framework for Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) that is an anecdote for vagueness when working on a Startup or any other organization. I know reflect on many organizations (especially governmental) that have lived for decades without having any impact - what they have lacked is OKRs. They remained delusional in doing the so called daily work without concretely pursuing a clear goal in a time-bound fashion. Have a north star goal, set clear objectives (annual) and pursue those using KRs (quarterly) while maintaining clarity and priority across the organization.
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- Anonymous User
- 13-02-20
valuable book!
An interesting concept for prioritizing whats important and whats not. Though the whole book is repeating itself a lot just with different examples
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- Anonymous User
- 03-01-23
Great detail and good stories
Goes into detail on how OKR’s can be used in businesses of all sizes.
It was a helpful insight in to how we will implement them in our own organisation.
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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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- andrew mower
- 22-04-21
Brilliant
I have listened to many books, this one is really a game changer really worth while
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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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- Stef
- 11-11-19
Motivating, thought provoking, well read
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.
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