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Don’t Be Tyrannized by Old Metrics

Harvard Business

While effective metrics are essential for focusing attention and achieving results, they can also overpower better sense. Most industries cower to a few central metrics, the yardsticks that define the winners and losers. Metrics tried and proven over years become a guide to what’s important, driving resource allocation.

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Is Execution Where Good Strategies Go to Die?

Harvard Business

First, the thinking styles of the people who create strategy are often different from those of the people who implement it. Furthermore, strategy is usually done by people who are focused on ideas and connections, while implementation is done by those who focus on process and action. This, too, is a reflection of mental models.