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Strategy meets Execution

Alignment for adaptive strategy execution

A distracted or misaligned team is not a productive or effective team. Alignment is a no-brainer in theory. But the difference between theory and practice is greater in practice than…

By Bo Pedersen

February 24, 2021

Strategy meets Execution

Don’t tell me what to do

Give me a strong reason why. Give me the ways and means to learn how. But please don’t tell me what to do. From Compliance to Commitment Purpose led businesses…

By Bo Pedersen

September 4, 2019

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

A Contrarian Approach to OKRs

In times past, I spent many an hour worrying about goal setting and OKRs in particular. For me, concerns usually fell into one of 5 big buckets: Defining inspirational OKRs…

By Bo Pedersen

August 12, 2019

Strategy meets Execution

Managing Change and Business as Usual at the same time

The key question is not whether to use OKRs or KPIs. Rather the opportunity is to use both OKRs and KPIs to drive positive change, while managing the business as…

By Bo Pedersen

May 14, 2019

Strategy meets Execution

Hidden Gems at the Royal Bank of Scotland

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is one the worlds largest banks. It is also one of the worlds most troubled banks, with several long lasting hangovers still inflicting pain years…

By Bo Pedersen

April 29, 2019

Strategy meets Execution

Innovation at Scale in Financial Services

The worlds largest banks are playing catch up. After retreating to lick their wounds after the near death experience of the Great Financial Crisis ten year ago, banks are back,…

By Bo Pedersen

April 17, 2019

Strategy meets Execution

Execution – The Ugly Duckling

Don’t treat Execution like the Ugly Duckling. It’s really a beautiful swan that can save both your Purpose and Strategy from languishing in misunderstood and much ignored irrelevance.

By Bo Pedersen

March 13, 2019

Strategy meets Execution

Stretch organisations, not people

There is a lot of talk about the value (or not) of stretch goals. Practiced and preached for decades, stretch goals are not new. However, in our experience, we see…

By Bo Pedersen

February 13, 2019

OKR Insights

The Relevant Organisation

What is relevance? Yuval Noah Harari’s latest book, 21 lessons for the 21st Century is a great quick read. Describing how new technologies are impacting labour markets, Harari identifies a new…

By Bo Pedersen

February 4, 2019

Start with OKRs

OKRs are a means to an end

Gtmhub helps companies align teams around what matters most. Most often, our customers use Objective and Key Results (OKRs) to define what needs to be achieved, and how to measure…

By Bo Pedersen

December 1, 2018

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

ROI from OKRs – Measure!

In this blog series, we will be looking at the potential return on investment from implementing Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). Across 5 articles we will look a how the…

By Bo Pedersen

October 22, 2018

Strategy meets Execution

Lessons from working with the best

One of the reasons I am so grateful to work at Gtmhub is that we get to work with some of the best organisations, doing amazing things, performing at the…

By Bo Pedersen

October 3, 2018

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

ROI from OKRs – Stretch!

In this blog series, we will be looking at the potential return on investment from implementing Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). Across 5 articles we will look a how the…

By Bo Pedersen

September 24, 2018

Start with OKRs

The Secret Ingredient in the Unicorn Recipe

The world welcomed more Unicorns recently. A Unicorn is a privately owned company with a valuation in excess of $1B. Most of them have one thing in common. A not…

By Bo Pedersen

September 21, 2018

Company News Strategy meets Execution

It’s a stampede!!!

For the past 3 years, we have been building Gtmhub, helping organisations large and small to align around inspiring objectives, take massive action and deliver measurable results. During this time,…

By Bo Pedersen

August 17, 2018

OKR Insights Strategy meets Execution

Avoid these 5 fail factors

Are you paying attention to your fail factors? There has been a lot of attention on the idea of North Star metrics, measuring what matters, and other ways of tracking…

By Bo Pedersen

August 8, 2018

Strategy meets Execution

How to win: Inspire, Act, Measure.

Every organisation we work with strives to perform better every day. They are on missions to change the world for the better, in their own unique ways. The people who…

By Bo Pedersen

August 2, 2018

Strategy meets Execution

Impressions from Saastr Europe

Gtmhub helps companies grow faster and deliver an awesome employee experience. To learn what other companies are doing to grow and build a world class culture, I attended Saastr Europa…

By Bo Pedersen

June 19, 2018

Strategy meets Execution

Scaling is about more than product

Investors love scalable businesses. Matt Clifford calls founders going through the company builder Entrepreneur First ‘scale seekers’.  Philosopher and mathematician Nassim Taleb introduced me to the concept of ‘convexity’. The…

By Bo Pedersen

June 18, 2018

Start with OKRs

How to grow, achieve more and be happy

Did you ever wonder how Google (aka Alphabet, but I’ll use Google throughout) became one of the most successful companies in the world? As a user of Google (probably) and…

By Bo Pedersen

June 15, 2018

Start with OKRs Strategy meets Execution

3 Steps to improved performance and employee happiness

Why engage Gtmhub? From my 1st day at Gtmhub, my personal objective has been to prove that it is possible to combine professional performance with personal happiness. For a long…

By Bo Pedersen

June 11, 2018