Measure What Matters


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#1 New York Times Bestseller 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.




Goal Setting and Team Management with OKR - Objectives and Key Results


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Do you have trouble setting, or accomplishing your career goals? Do you wish you knew how to manage your team better, and get them to commit to your bold vision? The truth is...the majority of managers are simply not very good at goal-setting. (Because they were never taught how to do it properly.) Most corporate goals are never completed on time, and even your highly-educated employees are (usually) not working on essential tasks during the workday. This can be damaging to your career, and can destroy your productivity. The solution lies in understanding that goals must be paired with well-defined metrics--in a framework specially designed to keep your team on track, and working (harmoniously) toward your corporate vision. The name of this framework is a new "goal-setting and management technique" called OKR--"Objectives and Key Results." Read on, and you'll understand why so many Silicon Valley companies (like Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter) have enthusiastically adopted OKR with great success. THIS BOOK WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO SET GOALS, AND LEAD A WINNING TEAM, WITH OKR! We will bypass the typical "management dribble," and show you how to set ambitious goals, and build the perfect "dream team"--a crew of enthusiastic employees, ready to make your vision a reality! You will learn: How to use OKR, and immediately apply it to your own company goals and management style. The one attribute of traditional goal-setting--that causes so many projects to fail. The trick to project-management that enables your team to easily topple even the most difficult goals. How to inspire your team to achieve their fullest potential, by using "stretch goals." The essential psychological forces that turn good leaders into great leaders. And how to harmonize the pursuits of upper-management, with the personal goals of each employee. So you can turn your workforce into a fine-tuned crew of relentless visionaries. This book, "Goal Setting & Team Management with OKR" is full of tips and tricks that will create an immediate, and positive impact on your corporate life. Even if you only manage a small business (with one or two employees), OKR still works. Indeed, even if you are a "digital nomad" (running your entire business from one laptop), OKR still works. In fact, as you become intimately familiar with OKR concepts, you might find yourself wondering how you ever ran your business (or your life) without it. Would you like to know more? Then get started today! Scroll to the top, and click the BUY button now.




Radical Focus


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"Radical Focus is a must-read for anyone who wants to accomplish out-sized results. Christina does a great job showing both the why and the how of OKRs. Avoid the all-too-common mistakes by reading this book first." - Teresa Torres, author Continuous Discovery Habits "This book is useful, actionable, and actually fun to read! If you want to get your team aligned around real, measurable goals, Radical Focus will teach you how to do it quickly and clearly." - Laura Klein, Principal, Users Know The award-winning author of The Team That Managed Itself and Pencil Me In returns with a new and expanded edition of her landmark book on OKRs. If you've ever wanted to know how to use OKRs, or why yours might not be working, Radical Focus teaches you everything you need to achieve your goals. The author pulls from her experience with Silicon Valley's hottest companies to teach practical insights on OKRs in the form of a fable.When Hanna and Jack receive an ultimatum from the only investor in their struggling tea supply company, they must learn how to employ Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) with radical focus to get the right things done. Using Hanna and Jack's story, Wodtke walks readers through how to inspire a diverse team to work together in pursuit of a single, challenging goal, and how to stay motivated despite setbacks and failures.Radical Focus has been translated into six languages and sold more than 50,000 copies. Now, the second edition of her OKR manifesto proves that Wodtke's business strategies are essential in a world where focus seems to be a more and more unreachable goal. The updated version includes 22,000 words of all-new material designed to help OKR users in larger companies create, grade, and manage OKRs in ways that accelerate success and drive rapid organizational learning.Ready to move your team in the right direction? Read this book together, and learn Wodtke's powerful system for attaining your most important goals with radical focus.




Objectives and Key Results


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Everything you need to implement Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) effectively Objectives and Key Results is the first full-fledged reference guide on Objectives and Key Results, a critical thinking framework designed to help organizations create value through focus, alignment, and better communication. Written by two leading OKRs consultants and researchers, this book provides a one-stop resource for organizations looking to quantify qualitative goals and ensure each team focuses their efforts to make measureable progress on their most important goals. You’ll learn how OKRs came to be and how leading companies use them every day to help teams and employees stretch their thinking about what’s possible, build their goal-setting muscles and achieve results that reflect their full potential. From the basic framework to a detailed dissection of best practices, this informative guide walks you through real-world implementations to help you get the most out of OKRs. OKRs help employees work together, focus effort, and drive the organization forward. Key results are used to define what it means to achieve broad, qualitative goals, and imperatives like “do it better” are transformed into clear, measureable markers. From the framework’s inception in the 1980s to its popularity in today’s hyper-competitive environment, OKRs make work more engaging and feature frequent feedback cycles that enable workers to see the progress they make at work each and every day. This book shows you everything you need to know to implement OKRs effectively. Understand the basics of OKRs and their day-to-day use Learn how to gain the executive support critical to a successful implementation Maintain an effective program with key assessment tips Tailor the OKRs framework to your organization’s needs Objectives and Key Results is your key resource for designing, planning, implementing, and maintaining your OKRs program for sustainable company-wide success.




Step by Step Guide to OKRs


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This “Step by Step Guide to OKRs” is a practical guide to goal setting that offers concrete examples to help you start setting impactful and meaningful goals. This book teaches you how to manage a team better and create a feeling of success.




Succeeding with OKRs in Agile


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"This is an absolutely brilliant book. If you really wants to learn more regarding OKRs in Agile and other important stuff related to it you must read this book. It's truly a master piece." "Super easy to read, with clear chapter summaries. Lots of solid content that is not hidden amongst fluff. Straight to the point and a must have for any agile practitioner curious about OKRs." "Allan's writing is perfect for busy managers who need to set objectives and form initiatives that satisfy diverse stakeholders. Plus, it doesn't sugar-coat OKRs - they are part of a management system - not a medicine. Overall, a wonderfully concise and easy to read guide to using OKRs. Highly recommended." OKRs are about goals bigger than the next story, or even epic. They prioritise purpose and strategy over the ever looming, high maintenance backlogs we all know too well. OKRs are important to agile teams because they deal with the big things, they inspire forward thinking, encourage engage senior leaders, and help debug strategy. Acclaimed author Allan Kelly describes why you should use OKRs, how to write them successfully, how to set measurable KRs, execute against OKRs in an agile environment to deliver outcomes, and the pitfalls and problems to avoid so you can deliver your outcomes. In this book he doesn't try to sell OKRs - others can tell you why OKRs are great. Allan describes his practical experience working with agile teams adopting OKRs, day-by-day, quarter-by-quarter. Unlike other books, this is not designed to sell you OKRs, Allan reveals decades of honest, hands on experience working with agile teams adopting OKRs, day-by-day, sprint-by-sprint, quarter-by-quarter. So you can get aligned, work seamlessly and hit goals efficiently.




The Office Leadership Collection (2 Books)


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Do you have trouble setting, or accomplishing your career goals? Do you wish you knew how to manage your team better, and get them to commit to your bold vision? The truth is...the majority of managers are simply not very good at goal-setting. (Because they were never taught how to do it properly.) Most corporate goals are never completed on time, and even your highly-skilled employees are often not working on essential tasks during the workday. This can be damaging to your company's productivity. The solution lies in understanding that goals must be paired with well-defined metrics--in a framework specially designed to keep your team on track, and working (harmoniously) toward your corporate vision. The name of this framework is a new "goal-setting and management technique" called OKR--"Objectives and Key Results." After reading Book 1, you'll quickly understand why so many Silicon Valley companies (like Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter) have enthusiastically adopted OKR with great success. But that's not all! In this 2-book bundle, we've also included a second book: "How to be a Good Boss and a Leader" THESE BOOKS WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO SET GOALS WITH OKR, AND LEAD YOUR TEAM TO GREAT SUCCESS! We will bypass the typical dreary management mumbo-jumbo, and show you how to apply timeless leadership principles--to unlock your team's hidden potential. Often, all of the ingredients you need, to turn a good company into a great company, are already located within your office walls! But it takes a visionary--to act as the catalyst that brings all the company's moving parts to life. Someone who knows how to focus this energy into a unified creative effort. Book 1: "Goal Setting & Team Management with OKR" How to implement the OKR goal-setting & goal-tracking framework--designed to keep your team on track and working together toward your corporate vision. The one attribute of traditional goal-setting--that causes so many projects to fail. The trick to project-management that enables your team to easily topple even the most difficult challenges. How to inspire your team to achieve their fullest potential, by using "stretch goals." How to setup a system to increase employee accountability and motivation. And how to harmonize the pursuits of upper-management, with the personal goals of each employee. So you can turn your workforce into a finely-tuned crew of relentless visionaries. Book 2: "How to be a Good Boss and a Leader" Learn why bosses, like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, are so good at inspiring people to achieve their fullest potential. How to challenge your team to be more productive and (most importantly) autonomous. The essential psychological attributes that separate the good leaders from the great leaders. How to deal with employees that aren't meeting your expectations. The 5 management principles that all great bosses follow. How to nurture your mind--via sleep and meditation--so you can stay calm and collected in any stressful situation. Even if you only manage a small business (with one or two employees), this book is still an invaluable resource for any boss. It provides a practical approach to business, in a straightforward manner--that will help you get the most from your employees, and create an immediate, positive impact on your business. As you become more familiar with these goal-setting, and leadership principles, then you'll probably wonder how you ever ran your business without them! Ready to learn more? If you want to become the successful boss (that your employees admire), then scroll up and click the Buy Button now!







Product Roadmaps Relaunched


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A good product roadmap is one of the most important and influential documents an organization can develop, publish, and continuously update. In fact, this one document can steer an entire organization when it comes to delivering on company strategy. This practical guide teaches you how to create an effective product roadmap, and demonstrates how to use the roadmap to align stakeholders and prioritize ideas and requests. With it, you’ll learn to communicate how your products will make your customers and organization successful. Whether you're a product manager, product owner, business analyst, program manager, project manager, scrum master, lead developer, designer, development manager, entrepreneur, or business owner, this book will show you how to: Articulate an inspiring vision and goals for your product Prioritize ruthlessly and scientifically Protect against pursuing seemingly good ideas without evaluation and prioritization Ensure alignment with stakeholders Inspire loyalty and over­-delivery from your team Get your sales team working with you instead of against you Bring a user­ and buyer-­centric approach to planning and decision-making Anticipate opportunities and stay ahead of the game Publish a comprehensive roadmap without over­committing




Sense and Respond


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The End of Assembly Line Management We’re in the midst of a revolution. Quantum leaps in technology are enabling organizations to observe and measure people’s behavior in real time, communicate internally at extraordinary speed, and innovate continuously. These new, software-driven technologies are transforming the way companies interact with their customers, employees, and other stakeholders. This is no mere tech issue. The transformation requires a complete rethinking of the way we organize and manage work. And, as software becomes ever more integrated into every product and service, making this big shift is quickly becoming the key operational challenge for businesses of all kinds. We need a management model that doesn’t merely account for, but actually embraces, continuous change. Yet the truth is, most organizations continue to rely on outmoded, industrial-era operational models. They structure their teams, manage their people, and evolve their organizational cultures the way they always have. Now, organizations are emerging, and thriving, based on their capacity to sense and respond instantly to customer and employee behaviors. In Sense and Respond, Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden, leading tech experts and founders of the global Lean UX movement, vividly show how these companies operate, highlighting the new mindset and skills needed to lead and manage them—and to continuously innovate within them. In illuminating and instructive business examples, you’ll see organizations with distinctively new operating principles: shifting from managing outputs to what the authors call “outcome-focused management”; forming self-guided teams that can read and react to a fast-changing environment; creating a learning-all-the-time culture that can understand and respond to new customer behaviors and the data they generate; and finally, developing in everyone at the company the new universal skills of customer listening, assessment, and response. This engaging and practical book provides the crucial new operational and management model to help you and your organization win in a world of continuous change.