Day #29 Grayleap Reading Challenge #OneThing #12Weeks #OKRs

1) Daizy Patel reviews the 14th chapter of the book "The One Thing" (Author Gary Keller with Jay Papasan)

Chapter 14 - Live By Priority

In this chapter, Keller takes up the example from Alice in Wonderland and explains to us how the cat in the story helps us understand a simple meaning: if we don't have a purpose, no matter which way we go, we will never reach anywhere. By having a purpose, you know where to go, but at the same time, you should know your priority because without it, you won't know how to get there.

PURPOSE WITHOUT PRIORITY IS POWERLESS.

Keller explains, a person makes his plans and goals for only one reason in life, to be in a position to be present appropriately in the moments that matter in his life.

The author emphasizes "Goal Setting to the NOW":

"So based on my goal today, what's the one thing I can do right now so I am on a track to achieve my goal today, so I am on a track to achieve my goal this week so I am on a track to achieve my goal this month, so I am on a track to achieve my goal this year, so I am on attract achieve my 5 year goal, so I am on a track to achieve my someday goal?"

Key points

1. You may have many priorities, but you have to choose the most important one as your one thing.
2. Divide?your goals of someday I want to achieve something, to what I can achieve in five years, to what I can achieve in this year, what I can achieve in this month, then this week, then today, and to what should I do right now.
3. The best way to achieve something is to write it on paper.?A research has shown that 39.5% people who wrote their goals accomplished their goals.

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2) Rajesh Madan reviews the 4th chapter of the book "The 12 Week Year" (Author Brian P. Moran with Michael Lennington)

Chapter 4 Throw out the annual plan

The 3 distinct advantages of the 12 week plan over annualised planning:

1. It is more predictable than 12 month planning. The farther you plan into the future, the less predictability you have.

2. It is more focused. Most annual plans have too many objectives, which is one of the primary reasons execution fails.

3. The structure. Annualised plans get placed in a nice binder and rarely get implemented.

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3) Amarendra S. reviews the 19th Chapter of "Measure What Matters" (Author John Doerr)

Chapter 19 - Culture Change: The Lumeris Story

Lumeris is a technology and solutions provider that is partnering with healthcare providers to "provide the right care, at the right time, at the right cost." The story is narrated by CHRO Andrew Cole. The use of OKRs had already been going on at Lumeris for a few quarters when Cole joined the organization. Cole observed that use of OKR was only surface-level; at the end of the quarter, people would simply change the statistics on the OKR platform and declare that their objectives had been achieved.

Jim Collins said in his book "Good to Great":

"The first is the right people on the bus. Second is the wrong people off the bus. But third is the right people in the right seats."

The situation at Lumeris called for a drastic revamp of the old culture. Old guards in leadership positions who could not fathom the value of transparency were respectfully eased out. Within 18 months, 85% of the HR team was also replaced.?

Cole implemented a 60-day pilot run with 100 employees after asking everyone in the organization to undergo retraining in OKRs. This led to OKR adoption by 98% of employees. The good work continued with the addition of the new COO, Art Glasgow. He pushed the OKR game with his "brutal transparency without judgment" approach.

At the time of book writing, Lumeris was already working across 18 states, impacting more that a million lives,

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