比尔·盖茨推荐每个经理都读读这本书

这位微软（Microsoft）的共同创始人和盖茨基金会（Gates Foundation）联合主席为约翰·杜尔的《衡量什么起作用》（Measure What Matters）写了推荐，表示它对“任何有意成为更好经理的人”而言都是一本不错的读物。

本书重点阐述了一个名为“目标和关键结果”（OKRs）的管理系统，它建立在因特尔（Intel）的安迪·格罗夫的想法之上。盖茨表示，格罗夫对他的管理风格有着巨大的影响。

杜尔是Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers的风险投资家和董事长。他在许多项目上与盖茨有着长期的合作。不过在书中，他探讨了与格罗夫的某次一小时的会面给他带来的长期影响。他尤其提道，人们往往会更多依据员工取得的成就而非专业技能来评判他们。

杜尔在书中写道：“你知道什么几乎并不重要……展现你的学识是次要的，执行力才最重要——好吧，哈佛大学不是这样教我的。我发现这个观点很可怕，现实世界对成就的认定要大于文凭。但格罗夫没有说完，他把最好的观点留在了最后。在会面接近尾声的几分钟里，他展示了自己从1971年起建立的体系，当时因特尔只成立了三年。这是我第一次接触到正式设定目标的艺术。我深深为之着迷。”

盖茨可能比杜尔更加欣赏格罗夫。他表示：“我研究过他之前写过的几本商业著作，微软也采用了因特尔使用的一些方法。我认为安迪是20世纪最伟大的商业领袖之一。”

盖茨从不羞于分享自己喜欢的作品。过去几年里，他还大力赞扬过史蒂芬·平克的《人性的美好天使：暴力与人性的历史》（The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity）和约翰·布鲁克斯的《商业冒险》（Business Adventures）。（财富中文网）

译者：严匡正

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.