From the course: Measure What Matters (Blinkist Summary)

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Final summary

- [Narrator] You've just listened to our blinks to Measure What Matters, by John Doerr. The key message in these blinks is that objectives and key results, OKRs, are a revolutionary tool that can help organizations reimagine their approach to management. As opposed to setting yearly goals, OKRs allow organizations and teams within them to continuously set, track, and achieve goals in a transparent and accountable way. And when combined with regularly having conversations with employees about their performance, instead of once per year, OKRs can bring about a healthy and high performance workplace culture. How can you apply these ideas to your workplace? When it comes to setting organizational objectives, remember that less is more. As Google co-founder Larry Page says, "Put more wood behind fewer arrows." Steve Jobs was essentially saying the same thing when he remarked that innovation means saying no to 1000 things.…

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