Venture capitalist in Menlo Park who wrote Measure What Matters, on goal-setting, and Speed & Scale; sat on President Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board from 2009.
Measure What Matters documents the objectives-and-key-results system Andy Grove built at Intel and Doerr carried into Google, with the mechanics that make it work - how objectives are set, how key results are graded, and why they are kept separate from compensation. Speed and Scale applies the same goal structure to decarbonisation targets and to the climate companies venture investors now fund.
2 books of their own · 2 articles · 13 books they recommend
Objectives and key results, the goal system Grove built at Intel and Google adopted.
Recommended by: Bill Gates, Amy Hood, Craig Blair and 4 others
A plan with measurable goals for reaching net-zero emissions.
Measure What Matters | Objectives and key results, the goal system Grove built at Intel and Google adopted. | 2017 | T2 | Bill Gates, Amy Hood, Craig Blair and 4 others |
Speed and Scale | A plan with measurable goals for reaching net-zero emissions. | 2021 | T2 | – |
What eleven companies did to turn fifteen ordinary years into fifteen great ones.
Also recommended by: Brian Armstrong, Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 15 others
Management as production: a manager's output is the output of the team they lead.
Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Tim Ferriss, Andrew Chen and 23 others
Insider account of Google's people operations by its SVP of HR.
Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Changpeng Zhao, David Cancel and 1 other
Steve Jobs's life and Apple's products, from forty interviews with him and many more.
Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick Collison and 16 others
Ten forces around 2000 that let anyone, anywhere compete in the global economy.
Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Bill Gates, Jamie Dimon and 1 other
A novel of an astronaut left alone on Mars who must survive until rescue.
Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Adam Ho, Bill Gates and 3 others
Also recommended by: Eric Weinstein
Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai
Techniques for handling people, being liked and winning others to your view.
Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Alex and Books and 12 others
Why the twenties matter, against the hype that trivialises that decade of life.
Also recommended by: Nat Eliason
A catalogue reviewing over 1,500 tools and what each one is good for.
| Why Adobe Killed Performance Reviews | What Matters | |
| Q&A with Anne Wojcicki | What Matters |
| Kleiner bets the farm Paywall | Fortune | 2008 |