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The Thimbles Summary
Measure What Matters
The book in one sentence
A short list of clear objectives, each with a few measurable key results, set openly and reviewed often, can keep a whole organisation focused on what matters most.
Who it's for
Founders, managers and team leads who want a simple goal-setting system, and anyone whose team is busy but unsure whether it’s busy on the right things.
The big idea
Doerr, a venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins, learned Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) from Andy Grove at Intel in the 1970s. An objective is what you want to achieve: significant, concrete and inspiring. Key results are how you’ll know you’ve got there: specific, time-bound and measurable, so that at the end of the period they are plainly met or missed. In 1999 Doerr presented OKRs to the founders of Google, then a tiny startup his firm had just backed, and the company has used them ever since.
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