#1 bestselling author and acclaimed venture capitalist John Doerr
reveals a sweeping action plan to conquer humanity's greatest
challenge: climate change. In 2006, John Doerr was moved by Al
Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and a challenge from his teenage
daughter: "Dad, your generation created this problem. You better
fix it." Since then, Doerr has searched for solutions to this
existential problem-as an investor, an advocate and a
philanthropist. Fifteen years later, despite breakthroughs in
batteries, electric vehicles, plant-based proteins and solar and
wind power, global warming continues to get worse. Its impact is
all around us: droughts, floods, wildfires, the melting of the
polar ice caps. Our world is squarely in a climate crisis and on
the brink of a climate disaster. Yet despite our state of
emergency, climate change has yet to be tackled with the urgency
and ambition it demands. More than ever, we need a clear course of
action. Fueled by a powerful tool called Objectives and Key Results
(OKRs), SPEED & SCALE offers an unprecedented global plan to
cut greenhouse gas emissions before it's too late. Used by Google,
Bono's ONE foundation and thousands of startups the world over,
OKRs have scaled ideas into achievements that changed the world.
With clear-eyed realism and an engineer's precision, Doerr
identifies the measurable OKRs we need to reduce emissions across
the board and to arrive by 2050 at net zero-the point where we are
no longer adding to the heat-trapping carbon in the atmosphere. By
turns pragmatic and inspiring, SPEED & SCALE intersperses
Doerr's wide-ranging analysis with firsthand accounts from Jeff
Bezos, Christiana Figueres, Al Gore, Mary Barra, Bill Gates, and
other intrepid policy leaders, entrepreneurs, scientists and
activists. This book is a launchpad for leaders of all kind, for
anyone anywhere who can move others to act with them. With a
definitive action plan, the latest science and a rising climate
movement on our side, we can still reach net zero before it is too
late. But as Doerr reminds us, there is no more time to waste.
________________ 'A critical blueprint for anyone looking to take
concrete steps to reach net-zero emissions.' Al Gore, former U.S.
Vice President 'A practical guide for both public and private
sector participation in decarbonizing the global economy, a task as
challenging as it is urgent.' Christiana Figueres, former executive
secretary of the UN Climate Change Convention 'A comprehensive plan
to tackle one of the most vexing challenges in human history.' Jim
Collins, author of Good to Great and Built to Last
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Wed, 13 Jul 2022 | Review
by: Boitumelo S.
Books came in good condition and it's quite an interesting read
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