比爾·蓋茨的讀書俱樂部又多了一本推薦書目。 這位微軟(Microsoft)的聯合創始人和蓋茨基金會(Gates Foundation)的聯合主席為約翰·杜爾的《衡量什么起作用》(Measure What Matters)撰寫了推薦,表示它“對任何想變得更優秀的管理者而言”都是本不錯的讀物。 本書重點闡述了一個名為OKRs(目標和關鍵結果)的管理系統,它建立于英特爾(Intel)的安迪·格魯夫的設想之上。蓋茨表示,這對他自己的管理風格產生了很大的影響。 杜爾是一名風險投資家,也是Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers的董事長,與蓋茨在許多項目上有著長期的合作。不過他在書中討論了自己與格魯夫某次一小時的會面給他造成的持久影響。他寫道,尤其是這個事實:人們會更多基于員工的成就,而非他們在某個領域的專業技術來評判他們。 杜爾在書中寫道:“你掌握什么幾乎不重要……知識是次要的,執行力才是最重要的——好吧,哈佛大學(Harvard)并不是這樣教我的。我發現這個說法令人毛骨悚然,現實世界對于成就的認定要大于文憑。但格魯夫沒有說完,他把最好的留在了最后。最后幾分鐘里,他提出了一個自己從1971年起建立的體系,當時英特爾成立不過三年。這是我第一次接觸到正式的目標設定的藝術。我完全被迷住了。” 蓋茨可能對格魯夫更為欣賞,他表示:“我研究了他之前寫過的幾本商業著作,微軟也采用了英特爾曾經用過的一些方法。我認為安迪是20世紀最偉大的商界領袖之一。” 蓋茨絲毫不介意分享自己喜歡的書。過去幾年里,他還贊揚過史蒂芬·平克的《人性中的善良天使》(The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity)和約翰·布魯克斯的《商業冒險》(Business Adventures)。(財富中文網) 譯者:嚴匡正? |
The Bill Gates book club has a new addition. The co-founder of Microsoft and co-chair of the Gates Foundation has written a testimonial for John Doerr’s Measure What Matters, saying it’s a good choice “for anyone interested in becoming a better manager”. The book focuses on a management system called OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), which is based on the ideas of Intel’s Andy Grove, who Gates says was a big influence on his own management style. Doerr, a venture capitalist and chairman of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has long worked with Gates on a variety of projects. In the book, though, he discussed the lasting impact a one-hour meeting with Grove had on him. In particular, he writes, employees were judged less on their expertise in a subject and more on their achievements. “It almost doesn’t matter what you know… To claim that knowledge was secondary and execution all-important—well, I wouldn’t learn that at Harvard,” writes Doerr in the book. “I found the proposition thrilling, a real-world affirmation of accomplishment over credentials. But Grove wasn’t finished, and he had saved the best for last. Over a few closing minutes, he outlined a system he’d begun to install in 1971, when Intel was three years old. It was my first exposure to the art of formal goal setting. I was mesmerized.” Gates is arguably an even bigger fan of Grove, saying “I studied several of the business books he wrote early on, and Microsoft adopted some of the methods that Intel used. I consider Andy one of the great business leaders of the 20th century.” When Gates likes a book, he’s not shy about sharing it. In the past few years, he has talked up Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity and Business Adventures by John Brooks. |