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Deepak Shukla’s Notes On Measure What Matters by John Doerr – Notes:
Hey guys,
I finished reading this book on the 10th of January 2021.
Here’s a synopsis of the book I grabbed from Amazon:
“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.”
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And here are my actual notes I took whilst I was listening to this on Audible:
- At any given time some significant % of people are working on the wrong things
- Keep firing yourself from jobs (important for founders)
- Have more wood behind fewer arrows
- Key results focus on output – pair quantity with quality
- Pair key results
- Focussing and committing to priorities
- It is our choices that determine our path and who we are far more than our abilities
- Understand if you Tell everyone to head across Europe than some will start in France others in Spain and Germany and won’t be united
- Build an internal enemy for us to compete against
- Pillars of OKRs
- Less is more
- Important to strive for a goal that’s immediately beyond your grasp
- Tools not a weapon
- Sales are the most important part of a business
- Every single person should have quarterly OKRs
- The what and the how
- Stressing output is the key to increasing productivity
- Peter Drucker is someone to read up on
- It almost doesn’t matter what you know. It’s what you can do
- What do we need to get done fast – and who is working on it?
- Produce a what matters to Pearl Lemon 1-2 pager to share with all
- Specifically higher + harder goals produce better performance
- Eg Key result number 1 = I finish my presentation on time 2 = we would create a sample set of quarterly OKRs
- Objective can be rolled over – key results evolve over a year
- It’s not a key result unless it has a number
- OKRs – objectives and key responsibilities
- Ideas are easy – execution is everything
