Measure what matters : how Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation rock the world with OKRs / John Doerr.
Doerr, John E., author.
2018
HD30.28 .D634 2018 (Mapit)
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Title Measure what matters : how Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation rock the world with OKRs / John Doerr.
Author Doerr, John E., author.
ISBN 9780525536222 (hardcover)
0525536221 (hardcover)
9780525536239 (electronic book)
Published New York, New York : Portfolio/Penguin, [2018]
Language English
Description xiii, 306 pages : illustrations, ; 22 cm
Call Number HD30.28 .D634 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification 658.4/012
Summary In the fall of 1999, John Doerr met with the founders of a start-up whom he'd just given $12.5 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. They'd have to know when to pull the plug on losing propositions, to fail fast. And they needed timely, relevant data to track their progress, to 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 the legendary Andy Grove drove the best-run company Doerr had ever seen. Later, as a venture capitalist, Doerr shared Grove's brainchild with more than fifty companies. Wherever the process was faithfully practiced, it worked. In this goal-setting system, 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. Everyone's goals, from entry level to CEO, are transparent to the entire organization. The benefits are profound. OKRs surface an organization's 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. 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, helping a new generation of leaders capture the same magic.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Part 1. OKRs in action. Google, meet OKRs
The father of OKRs
Operation crush: An Intel story
Superpower #1: Focus and commit to priorities
Focus: The Remind story
Commit: The Nuna story
Superpower #2: Align and connect for teamwork
Align: The MyFitnessPal story
Connect : the Intuit story
Superpower #3: Track for accountability
Track : the Gates Foundation story
Superpower #4: stretch for amazing
Stretch: the Google Chrome story
Stretch: the YouTube story
Part 2. The new world of work. Continuous performance management : OKRs and CFRs
Ditching annual performance reviews: the Adobe story
Baking better every day: the Zume Pizza story
Culture
Culture change : the Lumeris story
Culture change : Bono's ONE campaign story
The goals to come.

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