“Ideas are easy. Execution is everything.”
― Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
― Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
“The truth knocks on the door and you say, ‘Go away, I’m looking for the truth,’ and so it goes away. Puzzling.”
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
“My first PowerPoint slide defined OKRs: “A management methodology that helps to ensure that the company focuses efforts on the same important issues throughout the organization.”
― Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
― Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
“It is the study of how the human brain was designed—by natural selection—to mislead us, even enslave us.”
― Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
― Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
“KEY RESULTS benchmark and monitor HOW we get to the objective. Effective KRs are specific and time-bound, aggressive yet realistic. Most of all, they are measurable and verifiable. (As prize pupil Marissa Mayer would say, “It’s not a key result unless it has a number.”)”
― Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
― Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
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