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I read this book because of work, and I went into it with no expectations other than I was ready to learn something new that I could apply to my job. I was excited at the idea that the author would be explaining the key concepts in the form of a fable, but the idea fell utterly short for me.
In all, Radical Focus, is an average book that contains great information and concepts, but spends time on the wrong topics. I still feel the fable was a great idea, but the author executed it poorly. Instead of a fable, I found myself reading very basic, almost child-like storytelling with pages sprinkled throughout with business jargon, as if the author did not believe the reader could understand her unless she continually used basic sentence structure. The bits of profanity that were included felt misused and completely out of place with the rest of the book, and I was surprised they were included.
Luckily, however, the “fable” only took up the first two-thirds of the book, and the remaining third was used for a more in-depth discussion of the primary concept of the book: OKRs (Objectives and Key Results). This last third of the book was by far the most inspirational and motivating for me, since it included all the important information and potential steps employees could take to implement these concepts. It is also what saved this book from a 2-star review. However, I wish more time had been spent on explaining these key concepts and offering additional, concrete examples and ways to implement these ideas.
One of my biggest pet-peeves (which I’m sure you have noticed if you’ve read some of my other reviews) is finding spelling and grammatical errors consistently throughout a text, and Radical Focus was no exception. For a book that is only 153 easy-to-read pages, there are by far too many errors throughout. For example, the fable portion of the book is filled with sentences such as:
“The Sunday before Raphael started, he met with Hanna and Jack met at the Palo Alto Café.”
While I am excited to start implementing OKRs for the first time as part of my job, I would not recommend buying this book. Since it is priced at $24.99 (available for cheaper from sources such as Amazon), takes only a couple hours to read, and most of the information is found in the last third of the book, your time would be better spent checking it out from your library.
In all, Radical Focus, is an average book that contains great information and concepts, but spends time on the wrong topics. I still feel the fable was a great idea, but the author executed it poorly. Instead of a fable, I found myself reading very basic, almost child-like storytelling with pages sprinkled throughout with business jargon, as if the author did not believe the reader could understand her unless she continually used basic sentence structure. The bits of profanity that were included felt misused and completely out of place with the rest of the book, and I was surprised they were included.
Luckily, however, the “fable” only took up the first two-thirds of the book, and the remaining third was used for a more in-depth discussion of the primary concept of the book: OKRs (Objectives and Key Results). This last third of the book was by far the most inspirational and motivating for me, since it included all the important information and potential steps employees could take to implement these concepts. It is also what saved this book from a 2-star review. However, I wish more time had been spent on explaining these key concepts and offering additional, concrete examples and ways to implement these ideas.
One of my biggest pet-peeves (which I’m sure you have noticed if you’ve read some of my other reviews) is finding spelling and grammatical errors consistently throughout a text, and Radical Focus was no exception. For a book that is only 153 easy-to-read pages, there are by far too many errors throughout. For example, the fable portion of the book is filled with sentences such as:
“The Sunday before Raphael started, he met with Hanna and Jack met at the Palo Alto Café.”
While I am excited to start implementing OKRs for the first time as part of my job, I would not recommend buying this book. Since it is priced at $24.99 (available for cheaper from sources such as Amazon), takes only a couple hours to read, and most of the information is found in the last third of the book, your time would be better spent checking it out from your library.