I’m always looking for tools to increase productivity. This book is an excellent introduction if you’re not familiar with OKRs. I enjoyed reading the case studies in the book and about John’s personal history of tech in Silicon Valley.
Measure What Matters is a handbook for both small and large organizations for setting and achieving audacious goals through the use of OKRs. OKRs stands for "Objectives and Key Results." It is a collaborative goal-setting methodology used by teams and individuals to set challenging, ambitious goals with measurable results. OKRs are how you track progress, create alignment, and encourage engagement around measurable goals.
John is an engineer, acclaimed venture capitalist, and the chairman of Kleiner Perkins.
John was an original investor and board member at Google and Amazon. He’s passionate about encouraging leaders to reimagine the future, from transforming healthcare to advancing applications of machine learning.
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A good idea, but a little over-stated
I am a fan of business process books, and this book Measure What Matters, comes highly recommended.Any process that leads to transparent, cohesive goals for an organization is useful, and Objectives+Key-Results (OKR) as described in this book are a fine way of working towards that goal.The process is relatively simple, pick an objective and then key-results that will contribute to that objective.One of the nice aspects of OKR is that recent Microsoft (MS) Office releases have an OKR tracker embedded in the package that makes implementation easier if you are using MS Office.The book was good, but a few nits ... it has a lot of "marketing" material in the book, and some of the examples seem over-stated. When Intel decided to go after Motorola, the book says that everyone in the company worked on the objective, but Intel was a large company with a lot of support personnel. It is hard to believe that the janitorial staff, the admin sections, etc. all chipped in on that one objective. I understand that general idea, but it detracts from the book's credibility.The book does not spend a lot of time on giving examples of how to develop OKRs. It has a lot of illustrative examples of businesses that used OKRs and had miraculous turn-arounds, but the book spends little time on how to actually find and instantiate. A chapter or three that talked through the process with some simple examples would have been welcomed.Finally, I'm at a start-up now that is using the OKR methodology, and the book implies that you need to be "all in" on OKRs. We are finding that you need to find a way to work into OKR. The everywhere all at once approach the book advocates can be wildly impractical.All in all, this is a good idea, but the book would have benefitted from some additional how-to chapters and a little less marketing.
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Any process that leads to transparent, cohesive goals for an organization is useful, and Objectives+Key-Results (OKR) as described in this book are a fine way of working towards that goal.
The process is relatively simple, pick an objective and then key-results that will contribute to that objective.
One of the nice aspects of OKR is that recent Microsoft (MS) Office releases have an OKR tracker embedded in the package that makes implementation easier if you are using MS Office.
The book was good, but a few nits ... it has a lot of "marketing" material in the book, and some of the examples seem over-stated. When Intel decided to go after Motorola, the book says that everyone in the company worked on the objective, but Intel was a large company with a lot of support personnel. It is hard to believe that the janitorial staff, the admin sections, etc. all chipped in on that one objective. I understand that general idea, but it detracts from the book's credibility.
The book does not spend a lot of time on giving examples of how to develop OKRs. It has a lot of illustrative examples of businesses that used OKRs and had miraculous turn-arounds, but the book spends little time on how to actually find and instantiate. A chapter or three that talked through the process with some simple examples would have been welcomed.
Finally, I'm at a start-up now that is using the OKR methodology, and the book implies that you need to be "all in" on OKRs. We are finding that you need to find a way to work into OKR. The everywhere all at once approach the book advocates can be wildly impractical.
All in all, this is a good idea, but the book would have benefitted from some additional how-to chapters and a little less marketing.
A good idea, but a little over-stated
Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2023
I am a fan of business process books, and this book Measure What Matters, comes highly recommended.Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2023
Any process that leads to transparent, cohesive goals for an organization is useful, and Objectives+Key-Results (OKR) as described in this book are a fine way of working towards that goal.
The process is relatively simple, pick an objective and then key-results that will contribute to that objective.
One of the nice aspects of OKR is that recent Microsoft (MS) Office releases have an OKR tracker embedded in the package that makes implementation easier if you are using MS Office.
The book was good, but a few nits ... it has a lot of "marketing" material in the book, and some of the examples seem over-stated. When Intel decided to go after Motorola, the book says that everyone in the company worked on the objective, but Intel was a large company with a lot of support personnel. It is hard to believe that the janitorial staff, the admin sections, etc. all chipped in on that one objective. I understand that general idea, but it detracts from the book's credibility.
The book does not spend a lot of time on giving examples of how to develop OKRs. It has a lot of illustrative examples of businesses that used OKRs and had miraculous turn-arounds, but the book spends little time on how to actually find and instantiate. A chapter or three that talked through the process with some simple examples would have been welcomed.
Finally, I'm at a start-up now that is using the OKR methodology, and the book implies that you need to be "all in" on OKRs. We are finding that you need to find a way to work into OKR. The everywhere all at once approach the book advocates can be wildly impractical.
All in all, this is a good idea, but the book would have benefitted from some additional how-to chapters and a little less marketing.
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