How to Measure Aspirational Goals
It’s common for strategic goals to embody aspirations like world-class, best-practice, leading-edge, best-in-class, and world-leading. But how do we measure such goals in a way that helps us turn them...
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Transform Action-Oriented Goals Into Result-Oriented Goals
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...
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30 Tactics To Improve 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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How to Measure Government Outcomes
Governments need outcome measures as evidence to prove success (and hopefully to improve success, too). But there are five challenges to overcome, first. The increasing demand for greater transparency of,...
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Why the Important Things Are So Hard to Measure
ESG and DEI are examples of things that are strategically important to business success, but are extremely hard to measure meaningfully. One skill helps us solve this gridlock. The definition...
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The Piece Missing From Every Strategy Framework
If you’re not happy with the KPIs in your OKRs or Balanced Scorecard or other strategic plan, then you need to add in this one piece… Think about the last...
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