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Consulting Tip #6: Use Your Intellectual Property to Build Political Capital

Johanna Rothman

Then I read Lorin Hochstein's brilliant assessment in On productivity metrics and management consultants. Your videos on your video channel. Do I have the “perfect” mix of videos there? Someone refers to that content and asks for a discovery call, etc. But you don't need a book to go on a podcast.

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The goal trap for small businesses

Asamby Consulting

Goal setting refers to how these goals are defined, tracked and managed. These goals can be tracked through metrics that gives continuous feedback such as OKR, MBO, etc. These metrics are like receiving a score in a video game, which allows everybody to know if they are going in the right direction.

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Cascade of Errors

CaseInterview.com

It refers to a sequence of errors that compound each other and results in an adverse outcome for patients. This is one of the reasons that I insist on my clients tracking their key performance indicator metrics. It turns out that the concept of an error cascade is also used in the medical field.

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7 Data-Driven Characteristics of Teams that make Better Decisions

Organizational Talent Consulting

A good working definition of what it means to embrace data-driven decision-making is: Using facts extracted from data and metrics to guide business decisions that support business goals rather than relying on experience, intuition, and stories alone. Pay attention to metrics that matter and provide regular updates. McGraw-Hill.

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Google Analytics for Consultants, Part 3: Consulting Website Performance Dashboard (Free Template)

Tsavo Neal

An analytics dashboard is a summation of your most important metrics and KPIs. Watch the video below for instructions). Bookmark this page, and refer to it often. In part 3 of this series, you will create a dashboard for your website’s analytics. What is an analytics dashboard? Most of it is meaningless without context.

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The Top 6 Post Workshop Learning Best Practices

LSA Global

These reflections can be covered in a conversation with a colleague, an email from the workshop sponsor or facilitator, a note that they write to themselves, a reflection journal, or a video that is shared by all the trainees. You will know you are on the right path when rewards and metrics are aligned with the desired new behaviors.

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Social Media Platforms Can Be Built Around Quality, Not Scale

Harvard Business

It’s proven hard to solve these problems partly because of metrics: It’s hard to identify and measure the factors that lead to high-quality information or connection. Technologists often discuss the problem of “ vanity metrics.” In journalism, for example, the pageview is a much-maligned metric.

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