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Don’t Be Tyrannized by Old Metrics

Harvard Business

Many business leaders are fond of the spurious Peter Drucker quote that “you can’t manage what you can’t measure.” While effective metrics are essential for focusing attention and achieving results, they can also overpower better sense. But these metrics can become tyrants.

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Is Execution Where Good Strategies Go to Die?

Harvard Business

The fourth gap between strategy and execution is in measurement and metrics. I consistently see measurement as an afterthought in strategy development. The assumption is that financial measures like cost and revenue are sufficient metrics to measure progress. How easily can people share data across the enterprise?