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Beyond Brainstorming: The Evidence-Based Foundation to Find the Right KPIs

04 March, 2026 Evidence Based Leadership, Meaningful Performance Measures

How do you find the right KPIs? It’s not with the commonly used approaches, but the right approach will be obvious in hindsight. How do you measure that? In the...

Five Reasons Leaders Support Performance Measurement

03 February, 2026 Evidence Based Leadership, Getting Executive Support

Getting leadership support for KPIs and measuring performance is the biggest challenge our community faces. So how do we position the value of measurement, to win their support? Practitioners often...

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Paradigm Shifts For a Strategic Performance Breakthrough

01 July, 2025 Evidence Based Leadership, Getting Executive Support, Performance Culture, White Paper

Five ways our thinking can shift to lead a measurable strategy that aligns everyone to achieve it. If we want a breakthrough in how our organisation reaches its goals and...

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Transform Action-Oriented Goals Into Result-Oriented Goals

02 June, 2025 Evidence Based Leadership, Making Strategy Measurable

One of the reasons why it seems so hard to find meaningful performance measures for our goals has to do with whether the goals describe actions or results. We find...

30 Tactics To Improve Strategy Execution

04 March, 2025 Cascading Strategy, Evidence Based Leadership, Making Strategy Measurable, Strategy Execution

Use this checklist of 30 tangible clues, and practical tactics, to make sure your strategic plan isn’t one of the 90% that will fail in execution. We don’t have to...

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Two Questions Every Leader Asks For Successful Strategy Execution

03 December, 2024 Evidence Based Leadership, Performance Leadership, Strategy Execution

To know if their strategic plan is ready for successful strategy execution, leaders need to keep asking and answering two vital questions. Sure, there are more than just two questions...

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