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Organizational Performance Measures Best Practice 25 – Performance Metrics Inventory Database

Strategy Driven

Ensuring these numerous metrics remain well aligned, their output quality and relationship integrity preserved, and their meaning well understood while continuing to be of value to executives, managers, and employees necessitates a method of inventorying the measures themselves and their underlying construction characteristics.

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Why Decisions Get Second-Guessed, and What to Do About It

Harvard Business Review

Take a lesson from Persian king Cyrus the Great , who said, “Diversity in counsel, unity in command.” Take advantage of one of the many good models out there, such as RACI , to help you define various roles and responsibilities from start to finish. The fix: Clarify the decision-making process.

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