Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs Audiobook Online

[Book] Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs Audiobook Online by John Doerr

Legendary venture capitalist John Doerr reveals how the goal-setting system of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) has helped tech giants from Intel to Google achieve explosive growth--and how it can help any organization thrive.

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 ('the greatest manager of his or any era') 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.

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 book will help a new generation of leaders capture the same magic.

Read by John Doerr, William Davidow, Brett Kopf, Jini Kim, Mike Lee, Atticus Tysen, Patti Stonesifer, Susan Wojcicki, Cristos Goodrow, Julia Collins, Alex Garden, Joseph Suzuki, Andrew Cole, Bono, and others

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Duration: 7 hours, 56 minutes
Writer: John Doerr
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Narrators: William Davidow, Mike Lee, John Doerr, Jini Kim, Susan Wojcicki, Alex Garden, Cristos Goodrow, Patti Stonesifer, Joseph Suzuki, Atticus Tysen, Brett Kopf, Julia Collins
Genres: William Davidow, Mike Lee, John Doerr, Jini Kim, Susan Wojcicki, Alex Garden, Cristos Goodrow, Patti Stonesifer, Joseph Suzuki, Atticus Tysen, Brett Kopf, Julia Collins
Rating: 4.42
Narrator Rating: 4.17
Publication: Sunday, 01 April 2018

Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs Audiobook Online Reviews

Jelmer S.

A book that's surely worth the read (or listen), but it's not a masterpiece . The core subject (OKRs) certainly is an interesting one. Mainly by examples, the author makes the case for the effectiveness of this approach for various aspects of organizations. Some aspects of this approach seem truly worthwhile for a further inspection of applying this in your own life/organization. I missed, however, a consideration of similar or different approaches. Furthermore, the ongoing repetition of various examples of success makes it a bit dull after a while. Some of the narrators are pretty boring as well.

Rating: 3
Joseph H.

a very good guide to helping you set a goal and work toward achieving it what jobs help me to understand a new technique for accomplishing goals

Rating: 5