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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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A great guide and inspirational accounts of an idea that seems pretty simple, but not at all easy to do. Take-home penny-drops, slow burn style.... well worth the time.

Inspirational

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Very helpful to manage your business and achieve your objectives along with the theme

It is almost like a leadership course
Thank you John

Excellent for startups

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great read, enjoyed listening and loved all interviews on how setting up stretch goals and ask people to aim high

great read highly recommended

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All about OKRs and the importance of doing it right with a lot of case studies and real world examples.
It would require an accompanying pdf, especially for the lists that just being read in the book.

OKRs

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Absolutely loved it. A colleague and I started using the methods immediately in our business to align cross functional teams.

A must for anyone trying to excel

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Those who are in the business but need direction to effectively manage it or starting a new business will be immensely helped by reading this book.

Goal setting at its epitome

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Measure What Matters outlines the processes of setting Objectives and Key Results or OKRs - the framework for goal setting and success used by Google, Microsoft and the Gates Foundation, just to name a few big time companies. The structure of goal setting and achievement in this book should be standard reading for all MBA students.

An important book for anyone who wants to achieve

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John has done a comprehensive job. Very compelling. Will take a second read to absorb.

Cut to the heart

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There are a lot of stories that make up most of the book. I found the last chapter the most beneficial.

Best part last chapter.

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what an amazing presentation of a simple but saleable concept.
this will be an ongoing tool for my and my teams work for years to come!

will change what work you do!

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