Book Titles

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

By John Doerr

Year Published: 2018
ISBN-13: 978-0525536222
Categories: Measurement, Success

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…the most important thing needs to get done first or they won’t get done at all.

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Stretch goals can be crushing if people don’t believe they’re achievable.

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Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions. – Sheryl Sandberg

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Annual performance reviews are costly, exhausting, and mostly futile.

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…the contemporary alternative to annual reviews is continuous performance management.

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It might sound almost too easy, but continuous performance management will lift every individual’s achievement. It elevates performance, bottom to top.

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…when goals are used and abused to set compensation, employees can be counted on to sandbag.

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Effective one-on-ones dig beneath the surface of day-to-day work.

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As workplace conversations become integral, managers are evolving from taskmasters to teachers, coaches, and mentors.

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Unlike negative criticism, coaching trains its sights on future improvement.

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