What is Reddit's opinion of Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs?

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Read Measure What Matters by John Doerr. It's a meta-answer to your question, but useful nonetheless. Running a business is a series of experiments and treating it as such creates a robust methodology for growth, reacting to shocks, etc. I can't recommend this book more highly.

One book I would suggest for a new manager:

Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

Get the audiobook for a quick listen.

I think you might be describing the need for a goal management framework.

Popular these days is the OKR process (Objectives and Key Results) which sets company wide objectives / goals that cascade down the hierarchy into department specific goals and key results / outputs. The key results across the org will collectively drive toward the goal without requiring a mechanism to orchestrate every single goal directly, reducing the impact of management bottlenecks and encouraging department autonomy — in theory. The framework works but it’s often poorly implemented.

In your example, making $1 million could be a sales objective with individual key results like the channel selling cascading from it.

The book that popularized OKRs: - Measure What Matters https://www.amazon.com/Measure-What-Matters-Google-Foundation/dp/0525536221/ref=nodl_

I was able to find alternate shoes for my interview outfit. I don't love them as much, but they'll work--they're these, but in mauve/light pink. I like them.

Tomorrow I need to read Brave New World for book club, flip through this book for my interview, and do overall interview prep. Ugh. Since I have a lot of reading to do, I am instead watching The Great British Bake Off. So charming!

For strategic thinking, I'd recommend using OKRs from the top down to set metrics based objectives for the company and work with the team to set their own supporting OKRs. John Doerr has a fantastic book on OKRs that I'd suggest anybody to look at.

Measure What Matters by John Doerr - https://www.amazon.com/Measure-What-Matters-Google-Foundation/dp/0525536221/

Not the best week in terms of raw performance, but a very good week in terms of re-assessing where I'm at and reconnecting with goals. That process seems to recur every 4-5 months or so.

**BODY**

Lifting: After posting last week about leaving my personal trainer, I switched back to 5x5 to explore lifting heavy again.

Despite lifting VERY light for the past 6 months or so, ego still flares up when deciding what weight to put on the bar. I de-loaded to half of where I left off with 5x5 (my PR continued to go up for a few months after that. After so long of not lifting heavy I wanted to build in A LOT of room to build back up.

So, starting quite low in order to build back up and focus on maintaining form. Fun so far; I much prefer 5x5 in general because the workouts are shorter/more to the point.

After some recommendation I've been adding in pull ups and curls to the workouts as well, just super setting between the two after finishing.

Diet: had a few days where I ate off plan this week. One was on a date night with the wife - ordered my first ever Baked Alaska and GOOD LORD, I REGRET NOTHING - FUCK

Memorial Day I had a plan in place for a cookout and did not follow it. Lame.

Doctor: Finally going to see a doctor after many years away. New doc, had first appointment this morning. Liked him, young but very thorough. Fit as well.

My goal is to go back over all my cardiologist data from 6 years ago and reassess my atrial fibrilation. Once that's done, going to get a very thorough heart check up (heart attacks are very common on both mom and dad's side) and just make that a regular thing.

**MINDSET**

I would say slightly weaker than last few weeks.

Noticed myself being bothered more by sexual rejections, not wanting to initiate, etc. Nowhere near as strong as it was, and I'm more aware of it, but I've lost a bit of the OI I was enjoying.

Things are bad ----> I give up, develop OI -----> things improve ------> I get re-attached ------> lose OI ------> things are bad

^^^ That's the cycle right there. It's getting less intense over time, though.

**RELATIONSHIPS**

Sex twice this week. I'm doing more initiating during the day, but not any more or less successful than initiating in bed.

I've been thinking about our sex life; I've certainly gotten it to a better place than I ever thought possible (1-2 a week on average). But of course, now my goals have improved.

I'd like to be rejected much less, but I can't force attraction and have a lot of room to grow. I can keep working on that myself.

Something I've largely ignored is my own sexual performance/leadership. I've never had trouble giving my wife orgasms (classic nice guy behavior, "she has to cum!"), so it never bothered me much.

But I definitely rely on a very small collection of positions/techniques, etc. My wife is also very closed off about what she likes, sexually, so there's nothing coming from her. I like to be more dominant in bed, but my wife has not been terribly open to that outside of a small number of instances (doesn't like being told what to do, etc).

Outside of the attraction question, it's up to me to lead the relationship here. I also think I could stand to broaden my repertoire; I can settle into a rut unless I'm pushed.

I have a couple books/etc on sex saved to the HD that I never really explored; think it's a good time to look into that stuff. SGM and a few others.

If I want more variety in our sex life - which I do - I have to create that variety.

**BUSINESS**

Starting a new side biz, which is always fun - that's the exciting part.

Also joining a high level systems training with someone who owns several businesses but doesn't work in any of them. Going to increasingly remove myself from my current business while building side incomes.

**READING**

Measuring what matters

https://www.amazon.com/Measure-What-Matters-Google-Foundation/dp/0525536221

All about OKRs. Very interested in using this in my businesses (and in personal life)

Some Enneagram books - I find the enneagram pretty insightful. Don't really believe in "personality types," but I've gained some insight from this system. I'm a 9, my wife is a 6 - want to get a bit deeper into understanding how she copes with stress/problems.