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Are You a Monday Morning Quarterback?

Strategy Driven

Many leaders run their business in the same manner and assert specific changes should have taken place as soon as they receive unacceptable bottom-line results from their finance department. At this point, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) come into play as an indispensable tool to measure their effectiveness.

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Data-Driven Management Can Also Be Compassionate

Harvard Business Review

” No, Bezos shouldn’t embed a C@D—Crying@Desk—metric on his KPI dashboard. As the New York Times article observed, “Amazon uses a self-reinforcing set of management, data and psychological tools to spur its tens of thousands of white-collar employees to do more and more.