這位微軟（Microsoft）的共同創始人和蓋茨基金會（Gates Foundation）聯合主席為約翰·杜爾的《衡量什么起作用》（Measure What Matters）寫了推薦，表示它對“任何有意成為更好經理的人”而言都是一本不錯的讀物。

本書重點闡述了一個名為“目標和關鍵結果”（OKRs）的管理系統，它建立在因特爾（Intel）的安迪·格羅夫的想法之上。蓋茨表示，格羅夫對他的管理風格有著巨大的影響。

杜爾是Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers的風險投資家和董事長。他在許多項目上與蓋茨有著長期的合作。不過在書中，他探討了與格羅夫的某次一小時的會面給他帶來的長期影響。他尤其提道，人們往往會更多依據員工取得的成就而非專業技能來評判他們。

杜爾在書中寫道：“你知道什么幾乎并不重要……展現你的學識是次要的，執行力才最重要——好吧，哈佛大學不是這樣教我的。我發現這個觀點很可怕，現實世界對成就的認定要大于文憑。但格羅夫沒有說完，他把最好的觀點留在了最后。在會面接近尾聲的幾分鐘里，他展示了自己從1971年起建立的體系，當時因特爾只成立了三年。這是我第一次接觸到正式設定目標的藝術。我深深為之著迷。”

蓋茨可能比杜爾更加欣賞格羅夫。他表示：“我研究過他之前寫過的幾本商業著作，微軟也采用了因特爾使用的一些方法。我認為安迪是20世紀最偉大的商業領袖之一。”

蓋茨從不羞于分享自己喜歡的作品。過去幾年里，他還大力贊揚過史蒂芬·平克的《人性的美好天使：暴力與人性的歷史》（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

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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.