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Published Oct. 31, 2018 by Penguin Audio, John Doerr.

Audible ASIN:
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3 stars (15 reviews)

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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 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 …

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A manual for working in large tech companies

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Apart from the clear examples and guidance to come up with OKRs for your own company or team, which is why I was mainly reading this book, I finally understood what the company that employs me wants to achieve with continuous feedback and all around conversations around performance. I did not know those two things were so much linked together. Now things make more sense. Maybe a good read if you work in a large tech company.

Review of 'Measure What Matters' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

Waste of time.

I was expecting it to analyze real problems, like how the chain of command gets broken in big companies. I was expecting questions like "how to ensure people focus on something useful?"
"What to do if you're CEO, middle manager, or junior developer wanting to help the system?"

Instead, I got boring advertisements of companies from the title page (Google, MyFitnessPal, Nuna, and so on). The story is the same everywhere "we're an awesome company, we had no problems, but decided to adopt OKR, now we don't have any problems". Seriously?

Review of 'Measure What Matters' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

It was fine. I like the OKR concepts, but felt that most of the book was spent offering "fan-boy" recognition of the giants of Silicon Valley. I get that it is good to show context on how a program has worked for others, but the book spent the MAJORITY of the time talking about how an OKR program worked for business and not enough time discussing HOW to set up OKRs.

Review of 'Measure What Matters' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

کتاب جذابی بود، واقعا لذت بردم از مطالعه‌اش اما نسبت به رویکرد داستان‌وار و غیرعملی نویسنده توی طرح و توضیح مفهوم OKR نقد دارم.
من به عنوان مخاطب کتاب تا انتهای کتاب شاید به اندازه ۳ صفحه هم تکنیک عملی از نویسنده دریافت نکردم و این موضوع چندان خوشایندم نبود.
به جز این موضوع، کتاب رو خیلی دوست داشتم.

Review of 'Measure What Matters' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

This book made me finally understand OKRs. I heard “As measured by” and it finally clicked. Would give 5 stars if I was considering only the OKR part!

But the CFM part is full of platitudes. I would tune out while listening and come back seconds later and it still sounded empty as “multidirectional continuous communication built to strengthen strategic global organization” or something innocuous like that.

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