Measure What Matters¶
Doerr, J. (2018). Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs. Portfolio.
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3 citations across 3 artifacts.
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Primes¶
- Backcasting
- The discipline of fixing an outcome and working backward to required activities mirrors the goal-setting logic Doerr (2018) popularized for OKR-driven organizational planning.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
The publisher's page for Doerr's book states OKRs are a goal-setting system, but carries nothing on backcasting or working backward from an outcome.
“Legendary venture capitalist John Doerr reveals how the goal-setting system of Objectives and Key Results …”
- The discipline of fixing an outcome and working backward to required activities mirrors the goal-setting logic Doerr (2018) popularized for OKR-driven organizational planning.
- Operational Period
- OKR cycles: quarterly objectives committed for the cycle and reassessed at its close.
This sourceDescribes the OKR cycle — objectives committed for a quarter and reassessed at its close.
- OKR cycles: quarterly objectives committed for the cycle and reassessed at its close.
- Reification
- In organizational practice it is treating the org chart, the strategy deck, the OKR, or the JIRA board as the company.
This sourceStandard reference on OKRs as goal-summarizing instruments and their goal-displacement failure modes.
- In organizational practice it is treating the org chart, the strategy deck, the OKR, or the JIRA board as the company.
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