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Discover the revolutionary approach to goal-setting behind the
explosive growth of Intel, Google, Amazon and Uber.
In 1999, legendary venture capitalist John Doerr invested nearly $12
million in a small startup that had amazing technology, entrepreneurial
energy and sky-high ambitions, but no real business plan. After
implementing Doerr's system of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), the
company grew exponentially. Today, that same startup - Google - has a
market cap exceeding $600 billion.
Doerr has introduced OKRs to more than fifty companies, helping tech
giants and charities exceed all expectations. In the OKR model,
objectives define what we seek to achieve and key results are how those
top priority goals will be attained. They focus effort, foster
coordination and enhance workplace satisfaction. For the first time in
Measure What Matters, Doerr shares behind-the-scenes case studies to
demonstrate the agility and explosive growth that OKRs have spurred at
so many leading organizations.
With a foreword by Larry Page, and contributions from Bono and Bill
Gates, this book will show you how to collect timely, relevant data to
track progress - to measure what matters. It will help any organization
or team aim high, move fast, and excel.
#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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