Matt Lerner: Goals, Metrics and Incentives

Do your teams move in one direction? Single founders struggle to focus on the right things. More people, teams and departments mean exponential complexity.

The truth. A single goal and focusing resources on achieving it is the only way to maximise outcomes.

In this interactive session, Matt takes you through the process of finding, stress-testing and implementing a single North Star Metric to help you align goals, behaviours and incentives across your company. You will learn how to identify your rate-limiting step, the bottleneck where you need to focus to have the biggest impact on your growth. He discusses how to implement your framework across your team so that people are aligned and making good decisions about how to spend time and money.

This session will help you to:

  • Simplify prioritization and decision making.
  • Focus your team on the most impactful work. Everyone works hard, winners do the right work.
  • Develop a metrics-driven culture to reinforce high-impact thinking and decision making.

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Matt Lerner
Matt Lerner

Matt Lerner

Founder, SYSTM

Matt Lerner is a bestselling author and 15-year Silicon Valley veteran, and three-time BoS speaker. Matt was part of the early growth team at PayPal, and a Partner with the VC fund 500 Startups.

Since founding SYSTM, Matt has worked with over 200 seed-stage startups to help them develop and execute their growth strategies.

He’s been featured in the First Round Review and the Harvard Business School podcast, and he’s guest lectured at Stanford Business School.

You can check Matt’s talks at BoS here.


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