Measure What Matters by John Doerr

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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.” [convertful id="197358"] And here are the 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 are not a weapons

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
E.g. Key result number 1 = I finish my presentation on time; 2 = we would create a sample set of quarterly OKRs
Objectives 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