Quotes from the book "Measure what Matters"

Here are some quotes from the book "Measure what matters - John Doerr". For the record below picture is generated by DALL-E (Open AI website).

Our goals are servants to our purpose, not the other way around.

We do not learn from experiences, we learn from reflecting on experiences.

A mission is directional, An objective has set off concrete steps that you are intentionally engaged in and actually trying to go for it.

The biggest risk of all is NOT taking one.

In 2007, National academy of engineering asked a panel of elite futurists to choose 14 grand engineering challenges. They selected challenges like "generate energy from fusion, reverse engineer brain, prevent nuclear terror, secure cyberspace".

At the time other email provider are giving 4 MB space, Gmail came with 1 GB free space. That my friend is BHAG(Big Hairy Audacious Goal).

If you set a crazy, ambitious goal and miss it, you still achieve something remarkable.

In a world where computing power is nearly limitless , the true scarce commodity is "Increasing human attention". - Satya Nadella.

Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Objectives are goal posts, the targets you are aiming for and key results are incremental yard markers for getting there. CFR's (Conversation, Feedback, Recognition) are the Monday video tape postmortems.

Unsuccessful startups scale beyond the leadership capacity and they die. Successful start ups scale beyond the team's abilities and the team gets replaced. Both are sad outcomes and there are only few exceptions.

Culture as the saying goes, eats strategy for breakfast.

First you need to get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats, only then do you turn the wheel and step on the gas. -Jim Collins (Book good to great).