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In Measure What Matters, Doerr shares a broad range of first-person, behind-the-scenes case studies, with narrators including Bono and Bill Gates, to demonstrate the focus, agility, and explosive growth that the Objectives and Key Results system has spurred at so many great organizations. This book will help a new generation of leaders capture the same magic.

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.

As Darwin famously observed, the beaks of each generation of Galapagos Island finches change to accommodate shifting food resources, allowing the birds to survive by adapting their capabilities to the new environment. Today's business people should take note: In the post-crisis economy, traditional career strategies spell professional extinction, but the fluid new "gig economy" offers tremendous potential for anyone willing to adapt.

OKRs ist eine revolutionäre Management-Methode, die hinter dem explosionsartigen Wachstum und Erfolg von Intel, Google, Amazon, Uber und Adobe steht. 1999 investierte John Doerr in ein Start-up und machte die Gründer mit OKRs bekannt, die sie zum Fundament ihres Managements erklärten. Das Start-up wuchs von vierzig Mitarbeitern auf mehr als 70.000 mit einer Marktkapitalisierung von über 600 Milliarden Dollar. Dieses Start-up war Google.

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