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Transform Action-Oriented Goals Into Result-Oriented Goals

02 June, 2025 Evidence Based Leadership, Making Strategy Measurable

Action-oriented goals describe what you’ll do; result-oriented goals describe the impact you want. Here’s how to tell them apart and make the shift. One of the reasons why it seems...

30 Tactics To Improve Strategy Execution

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

Most strategic plans fail in execution. Use this checklist of 30 tangible clues and PuMP tactics, across eight categories, to boost your odds. We don’t have to look too hard...

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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...

The Weasel Word Trap: Why Your Goals Aren’t Measurable

30 January, 2024 Evidence Based Leadership, Making Strategy Measurable

When goals are written with ‘weasel words’, and most goals are, they are misunderstood and immeasurable, and consequently not achieved. Most leaders struggle with measuring what matters, but continue to...

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Improving Strategy With A Better Measurement Approach

06 June, 2023 Evidence Based Leadership, Making Strategy Measurable

When we integrate a better performance measurement approach into the strategy processes we already have, we can make those processes work so much better, to truly achieve our strategic direction....

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Are Your KPIs A Tool In Their Hands Or A Rod for Their Backs?

08 December, 2020 Evidence Based Leadership, Getting Buy-In, KPIs For Individuals

What people believe a KPI or metric or performance measure will be used for fundamentally affects whether performance will improve or not. One of the most important memes of PuMP...

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