How Google sets goals: OKRs | Google Ventures
On the day Google’s acquisition of FeedBurner closed in 2007, it was also the first day of a new quarter at Google. My new manager at Google asked me to draft my OKRs for him to review. I had no idea what he was talking about. I’ve now gone through the process of setting my Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) 24 times, and each time I marvel at what an effective mechanism they are for focusing my effort as well as aligning my work with the company’s objectives ....
The Skills That Make Entrepreneurs Extraordinary | Stanford Graduate School of Business
After analyzing nearly 10,000 pages of interview transcripts, more than 5,000 pieces of archival and documentary evidence, and some 4,000 pages of academic research, Wilkinson teased out six skills shared by the most successful entrepreneurs and wrote a book about them. ...
Radical Candor — The Surprising Secret to Being a Good Boss
Kim Scott has built her career around a simple goal: Creating *****it-free zones where people love their work and working together. She first tried it at her own software startup. Then, as a long-time director at Google, she studied how the company’s leaders created an environment where the joy that people took in their work felt almost tangible ...
The Impact of IT Investments on Profits
New research finds that investments companies make in information technology increase profitability more than investments in advertising or R&D do ...
Introducing Buffer's Salary Calculator & New Salary Formula
It’s been over 2 years since we first shared our transparent salary formula; we’ve been truly blown away by the response we’ve seen ....
Do Fewer Things, Better
I'm going to tell you a secret. I have a very simple, 4-word strategic plan (devised it a few years ago). Here it is... Do fewer things, better .....
Counter-at-hack
The first ingredient of security is identity. Well-run organisations will stop using passwords and logins in 2016. Instead they will use ...
Outlook on your phone
For those that haven't installed Outlook for your phone, have a look at what it can do ...