Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results by Christina Wodtke. After reading John Doerr’s Measure What Matters it was a short trip to discover Christina’s book as a worthy follow-up.
Christina certainly established herself in Silicon Valley. Leadership roles at LinkedIn, Myspace and most recently Zynga.com serve her key message why OKRs are essential and not just limited to startups.
Further, her insights consulting with Yahoo, Hot Studio, and The New York Times solidify her experience. Today Christina teaches at Stanford.
Listening to Atruity Consultancy’s OKRs Q&A Podcast and following single episode OKR podcasts, it is clear Radical Focus holds impactful messages. It is and yet is delivered in a very unique way.
Above all, in the growing pandemic how can organizations inspire diverse teams to address unplanned challenges while collaborating remotely OKRs provide a framework for regular check-ins, reviewing weekly key results, adjust to setbacks and unplanned failures, while striving amid COVID to create success.
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Likewise, Radical Focus is an actionable business book in the form of a fable as stated up front by Christina. To clarify, I had to stop myself from Googling their startup name. The narrative is a fictional case study of two recent MBA grads Hanna and Jack, who are stumbling in their newly launched startup. Likewise after hard lessons, they learn the practical steps they need to take to do what must be done.