Matt Roberts

Make What Most Companies Do Poorly Your Opportunity

Make What Most Companies Do Poorly Your Opportunity Make What Most Companies Do Poorly Your Opportunity

We’ve written a lot about what a good company strategy, goal e.g. OKR and KPI management looks like. To understand why doing this well is an opportunity you need to see how most leadership teams and the management and execution layers below them choose to manage these areas. Strategy in Slides Strategies in slides are […]

7 Expensive Goal Setting Mistakes Teams Make That Are Really Easy To Fix

7 Expensive Goal Setting Mistakes Teams Make That Are Really Easy To Fix Goal Setting Mistakes

Goals are not strategically aligned Most executive teams, let alone low level managers and employees, can not articulate a company’s strategy. This means that goals, whether they are SMART goals or OKRs, may not align with strategy. And if goals are not aligned with strategy then there’s a good change your strategy might not be […]

Top 10 Business Planning Tips for 2022

Top 10 Business Planning Tips for 2022

It has been a great year and I’ve been thinking about the patterns I have seen when helping teams plan and systemise performance improvements. These are my top 10 growth initiatives if you’re planning for growth in 2022. Which ones resonate most with you and what would you like to see added to this list? […]

Connected Performance, Culture & Wellbeing For Everyone, Everywhere!

Connected Performance, Culture & Wellbeing For Everyone, Everywhere!

It’s been ages since we’ve blogged. We didn’t think the time was the best use of our time to blog about remote working, or maintaining cultural values remotely and all of the other topics we could have written about. There was a huge body of amazing COVID content out there helping us all do just […]

Price’s Law – Why does this feel like it might be true?

Price’s Law – Why does this feel like it might be true?

Price’s Law states that the square root of the number of people in a domain do 50% of the work. What this means is: 10 employees: 3 of them do 1/2 the work 100 employees: 10 of them do 1/2 the work 10,000 employees: 100 of them do 1/2 the work I’ve certainly worked in […]

The Key Result Difficulty Debate – Where Do You Stand?

The Key Result Difficulty Debate – Where Do You Stand?

One of the general rules of OKRs is the Targets set in Key Results should be a stretch and that achieving around the 70% mark can be seen as a success. So is the rule you should follow as simple as that or is it nuanced? Here are some nuances you should consider.