Measure What Matters

Doerr, J. (2018). Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs. Portfolio.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

2018

Link

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/546304/measure-what-matters-by-john-doerr-foreword-by-larry-page/

Cited from

futurism_foresight, organizational_management, philosophy

Cited by

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.
• 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.

• 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.

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