Radical Focus

Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results

By: Christina R. Wodtke

Narrated by: Samantha Desz

How do you inspire a diverse team to work together, going all out in pursuit of a single, challenging goal? How do you get your team to commit to bold goals? How do you stay motivated despite setbacks and disappointments? And what do you do when it looks like you're headed for failure? In Radical Focus, Christina Wodtke combines her hard earned experience as an executive at Zynga, Linkedin and many of Silicon Valley's hottest companies to answer those questions. It's not about to-do lists and accountability charts. It's about creating a framework for regular check-ins, key results, and most of all, the beauty of a good fail - and how to take a temporary disaster and turn it into a future success.

In this book, Wodtke takes you through the fictional case study of Hanna and Jack, who are struggling to survive in their own startup. They fight shiny object syndrome, losing focus, and dealing with communication issues. After hard lessons, they learn the practical steps they need to take to do what must be done. The second half of the book demonstrates how to use objectives and key results (OKRs) to help teams realize big goals in a methodical way, leaving nothing to chance. Laid out in a practical but compelling way, she makes the lessons of Hanna and Jack's story clear and actionable.

Ready to move your team in the right direction? Listen to this, and learn the system of creating your focus - and finding success.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2016 Christina Wodtke (P)2016 Christina Wodtke

For Anyone the Manages Staff

Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) is a staple in our organization. However, staff just didn't understand how to execute or measure their goals. This audio book explains it well. Tells you exactly what to do.

Logical framework to achieve success

The book was concise & specific in methods to successfully implement OKRs in an organization.

Good intro

Short story

Good intro

Lacks some of the practical challenges that one can face while implementing

Excellent treatment of OKRs

In about 3 1/2 hours, this book presents the key elements of OKRs (Objectives and Key Results). Not everyone is a fan of the "business novel" concept (such as Eliyahu Goldratt's The Goal), but I enjoy that style from time to time. This book actually is two short books in one ... an engaging business fable and an excellent, concise presentation of the use of OKRs. If you're not a fan of business novels, the second half of the book is well worth the purchase price.

great ideas on how to implement OKRs.

this was very helpful following Measure What Matters. already working on implementing in our company.

Loved it!

This book was super helpful and insightful. I love the fable, it made everything relatable. I can't wait for the next installment!

Muy bueno. Muy claro en los conceptos.

Los primeros capítulos cuentan alguna historia de éxito en alguna empresa. Con el típico formato de historias de fracasos anteriores hasta que finalmente vieron la luz con esta metodología.
A partir del capitulo 9 se larga de lleno en la metodología de los OKRs. Y es muy muy bueno.
Altamente recomendable.
Los OKRs tiene el potencial de transformar la vida de las personas y las empresas. Y este libro aporta la metodologia para lograrlo.

Great at getting start with OKRs

I read a lot of OKRs articles around the internet, but this book actually told me how to set OKRs with a startup fable, interesting way to learning!

AUDIBLE 20 REVIEW SWEEPSTAKES ENTRY

From insight to execution

This great book takes you trough a detailed explanation on OKRs, that leads to insight and further to execution. First part of the book is written in a fun novel style - the last part has hands on OKR models to use. Nice chapter on OKRs in product development. Great book!

Amazing book!

Its like OKR from the trenches! Way better than most material you can find online.