👋 Hello everyone,
Sir Winston Churchill said, "However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."
Here are a couple of resources you might have missed:
📚 Book Summary:
This week's book is "Measure What Matters" by John Doerr.
You should read this book to learn the system that companies like Google, MyFitnessPal, Adobe, and the Gates Foundation have used to drive results. OKRs, or Objectives and Key Results, involve defining your Objective and then listing the Key Results for that Objective. This book provides practical examples that I've been working on incorporating into my team.
One of my favorite take aways from the book is this:
"Jim Lally said: 'I was a skeptic on objectives and key results until Grove sat down with me and explained why they mattered. If you tell everybody to go to the center of Europe, and some start marching off to France, and some to Germany, and some to Italy, that's no good—not if you want them all going to Switzerland. If the vectors point in different directions, they add up to zero. But if you get everybody pointing in the same direction. You maximize the results.'"
✅ Actionable advice:
Leaders often fear sounding repetitive, while employees may doubt how well they understand the mission. OKRs help provide clear direction. As a leader, you are responsible for defining the "Objective." The objective is the "What." What are we intending to achieve? What is the end goal? The objective should be aggressive yet realistic. Key Results are the "How." Involving your team in creating the Key Results is an excellent idea to foster a sense of ownership and accountability among team members. Make sure the "How" is measurable. The "How" should describe an outcome, not an action, and include evidence of completion, like a date or the end of the quarter. Creating OKRs ensures that all efforts are directed towards the common goal, just as Grove explained: if everyone is aligned, we all end up in the same place—Switzerland.
🧠 5 things I'm thinking about (October 11, 2024)
1.Enjoy a day off (AutoDay)
2.Working on 90 day success plan
3.Preparation for Autodesk University
4.Finishing Q3 QBR deck
5.Stakeholder mapping follow-up
Reading "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell.
Have a great week!
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