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This post was originally written in January 2018 and last updated in January 2023. It’s still early in the new year, there’s the pleasant buzz of some new beginning still wringing in my years. I sit down, look at a blank space before me, and start writing down goals. Does this sound familiar? Yes? And…
![Measure What Matters: Why OKRs Are the Only Goal Setting Approach You Need [Book Notes]](https://valchanova.me/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/measure-what-matters-book-review-scaled.jpeg)
There are few better books to kick-off your planning and goal setting than Measure What Matters. The book summarizes the concept of objectives and key results (OKRs), my personal favorite goal setting approach, by one of its fathers. John Doerr didn’t just have a front seat at the birth of OKRs by Intel’s Andy Grove…