Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity
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Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity
What are our main priorities for the coming period? Where should people concentrate their efforts?
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
If leaders don’t articulate their priorities clearly, then the people around them don’t know what their own priorities should be. Time and energy and capital get wasted.
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The essential responsibilities of a leader/company exec, via DHH:
1. Chart the course
Where are we going? What are we building? Who is it for? Any executive running anything has to know the answer to these questions in order to lead anyone anywhere. If you don't have a clue where you're going, any road can take you there, and running in circles
... See more‘Move fast and break things’, ‘Test and learn’, ‘Dynamic optimization’, ‘Fail fast’, we’ve all embraced the thinking of the modern age and this always-on and agile approach. Clearly moving fast is good, clearly bureaucracy is bad, but sometimes I’m not sure we think. Often corporate strategy for large firms seems to be missing. There isn’t a bold v
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