John Doerr’s Measure What Matters is available on Audible as a 7 hrs 56 mins unabridged audiobook, narrated by John Doerr and William Davidow and Brett Kopf and Jini Kim and Mike Lee and Atticus Tysen and Patti Stonesifer and Susan Wojcicki and Cristos Goodrow and Julia Collins and Alex Garden and Joseph Suzuki and Various.
Publisher’s Summary
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.
In the fall of 1999, John Doerr met with the founders of a start-up whom he’d just given $12.5 million, the biggest investment of his career. Larry Page and Sergey Brin had amazing technology, entrepreneurial energy, and sky-high ambitions, but no real business plan. For Google to change the world (or even to survive), Page and Brin had to learn how to make tough choices on priorities while keeping their team on track. They’d have to know when to pull the plug on losing propositions, to fail fast. And they needed timely, relevant data to track their progress — to measure what mattered.
Doerr taught them about a proven approach to operating excellence: Objectives and Key Results. He had first discovered OKRs in the 1970s as an engineer at Intel, where the legendary Andy Grove (“the greatest manager of his or any era”) drove the best-run company Doerr had ever seen. Later, as a venture capitalist, Doerr shared Grove’s brainchild with more than fifty companies. Wherever the process was faithfully practiced, it worked.
In this goal-setting system, objectives define what we seek to achieve; key results are how those top-priority goals will be attained with specific, measurable actions within a set time frame. Everyone’s goals, from entry level to CEO, are transparent to the entire organization.
The benefits are profound. OKRs surface an organization’s most important work. They focus effort and foster coordination. They keep employees on track. They link objectives across silos to unify and strengthen the entire company. Along the way, OKRs enhance workplace satisfaction and boost retention.
In Measure What Matters, Doerr shares a broad range of first-person, behind-the-scenes case studies, with narrators including Bono and Bill Gates, to demonstrate the focus, agility, and explosive growth that OKRs have spurred at so many great organizations. This book will help a new generation of leaders capture the same magic.
Read by John Doerr, William Davidow, Brett Kopf, Jini Kim, Mike Lee, Atticus Tysen, Patti Stonesifer, Susan Wojcicki, Cristos Goodrow, Julia Collins, Alex Garden, Joseph Suzuki, Andrew Cole, Bono, and others
Audiobook Details
- Narrated by: John Doerr and William Davidow and Brett Kopf and Jini Kim and Mike Lee and Atticus Tysen and Patti Stonesifer and Susan Wojcicki and Cristos Goodrow and Julia Collins and Alex Garden and Joseph Suzuki and Various
- Length: 7 hrs 56 mins
- Publisher: Penguin Audio
- Release year: 2018
- Audible category: Business & Careers / Management & Leadership / Forecasting & Strategic Planning
Listener Ratings
Measure What Matters holds an average listener rating of 4.5/5 from 6780 Audible ratings.
On Audible, ratings for this title break down into narration performance and story separately:
- Performance (narration): 4.5/5
- Story: 4.5/5
- 5-star ratings: 69% of all ratings
What Audible Listeners Are Saying
5/5 stars — “Better on Audible “
From purely a value and impact perspective, after having listened to other audio books on audible – I must admit this had the best impact in delivering the message across to the listener. First home run was when listening to the actual author start the narration. The changing voices and brining the actual person behind to talk about how OKRs influenced them in each chapter interspersed with commentary from John Doerr’s own experiences kept me more engaged. I feel this personal touch was even better than reading the book – not something I have ever gone out to say or write an audio book review about. Thank you to the authors and whoever decided to do this. It felt like each successful entrepreneur from Larry Page to Kim or Mike was talking directly to me. Will be in search of more such collaborations going forward.— A. Thasarathan, Audible listener
5/5 stars — “Clarity”
This book is an eye opener, people are using this highly complicated, huge company . It might be usable for personal service company, which is ourselves. Then we go larger which is Family, writing OKRs with the family is awesome!!!!— Levi Suganob, Audible listener
5/5 stars — “Simple and sensible management framework”
The OKR framework John Doerr presents seems so obvious now. How else can we run our companies and teams, and achieve our goals, without a structure where we clearly identify the outcomes needed and measure progress toward them? well worth the listen for the framework itself, and for the guest interviews.— Richard, Audible listener
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