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    Measure What Matters - Summarized for Busy People: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs: Based on the Book by John Doerr
    Measure What Matters - Summarized for Busy People: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs: Based on the Book by John Doerr
    Measure What Matters - Summarized for Busy People: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs: Based on the Book by John Doerr
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    Measure What Matters - Summarized for Busy People: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs: Based on the Book by John Doerr

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    This book summary and analysis was created for individuals who want to extract the essential contents and are too busy to go through the full version. This book is not intended to replace the original book. Instead, we highly encourage you to buy the full version.

    John Doerr met with the founders of a startup to whom he gave $12.5 million in 1999. This was the biggest investment of his career. Larry Page and Sergey Brin had amazing technology, entrepreneurial energy, and great ambitions—but they had no real business plan. To change the world or even simply survive, Google had to make strong choices on priorities while keeping their team on track. They needed to know when to pull the plug or even fail fast. They needed timely, relevant data to monitor their progress—to measure what mattered.

    Doerr helped them with a proven approach to operating excellence: Objectives and Key Results. He discovered OKRs in the 1970s when he was an engineer at Intel, where Andy Grove, the greatest manager of his era, drove the amazingly run company. As a venture capitalist, Doerr shared Grove’s brainchild with more than fifty companies and whenever it was faithfully practiced, it worked.

    Objectives define what we want to achieve while key results are about how those goals will be attained through specific, measurable actions within a set time frame. Everyone’s goals—from entry-level to CEO are transparent to the whole company.

    Its benefits are profound as OKRs help with an organization’s most important work—they focus their effort and foster coordination. They help keep employees on track and they link objectives across teams to strengthen the entire company. OKRs eventually also improve workplace satisfaction and employee retention.

    Doerr shares a broad range of in-depth look into various companies including the Gates Foundation and Bono to show the focus, agility, and explosive growth that OKRs have created in the leading organizations. This book will create a new generation of leaders that capture the same magic.

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    Release dateAug 13, 2019
    ISBN9788834169841
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      Measure What Matters - Summarized for Busy People - Goldmine Reads

      MEASURE WHAT MATTERS

      Summarized for Busy People

      How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

      Based on the Book by John Doerr

      Goldmine Reads

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      TABLE OF CONTENT

      MEASURE WHAT MATTERS

      BOOK OVERVIEW

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      ABOUT THIS BOOK SUMMARY

      PART 1: OKRs in Action

      CHAPTER 1: Google, Meet OKRs

      CHAPTER 2: The Father of OKRs

      CHAPTER 3: Operation Crush: An Intel Story

      CHAPTER 4: Superpower # 1: Focus and Commit to Priorities

      CHAPTER 5: Focus: The Remind Story

      CHAPTER 6: Commit: The Nuna Story

      CHAPTER 7: Superpower # 2: Align and Connect for Teamwork

      CHAPTER 8: Align: The MyFitnessPal Story

      CHAPTER 9: Connect: The Intuit Story

      CHAPTER 10: Superpower # 3: Track for Accountability

      CHAPTER 11: Track: The Gates Foundation Story

      CHAPTER 12: Superpower # 4: Stretch for Amazing

      CHAPTER 13: Stretch: The Google Chrome Story

      CHAPTER 14: Stretch: The YouTube Story

      PART 2: The New World of Work

      CHAPTER 15: Continuous Performance Management: OKRs and CFRs

      CHAPTER 16: Ditching Annual Performance Reviews: The Adobe Story

      CHAPTER 17: Baking Better Every Day: The Zume Pizza Story

      CHAPTER 18: Culture

      CHAPTER 19: Culture Change: The Lumeris Story

      CHAPTER 20: Culture Change: Bono’s ONE Campaign Story

      CHAPTER 21: The Goals to Come

      BOOK REVIEW AND ANALYSIS

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