Another week, another book 😅

This time around I stepped away from Agile and I dove into “Measure What Matters: OKRs - The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth” by John Doerr.

At my company we have been using Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and I felt I needed to understand them better in order be more proficient in my professional life.

I did an internal training, but I felt I should also take on the recommendation from one of our managing directors and from other colleagues to read this book.

The book is easy to read, with a lot of examples from different organisations using OKRs, from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Google.

The author shows us the 4 superpowers of the OKRs:

1. Focus & Commit to Priorities
2. Align & Connect for Teamwork
3. Track for Accountability
4. Stretch for Amazing

Some other takeaways:

• “Ideas are easy; execution is everything.”
• “An Objective is simply WHAT is to be achieved”. “Key Results monitor HOW we get to the Objective.”
• “Continuous performance management is implemented with CFR: Conversations, Feedback, Recognition which give OKRs their human voice.”
• “Goals cannot be attained without a medium: an organisation’s culture.”

If you are curious you can find a lot of resources here https://www.whatmatters.com/.