Measure to Make It Happen

If something is not measured, tracked, and rewarded, it does not get done… however much you emphasize and reinforce it.

Please share your thoughts and comments.

- My question on Linkedin

Excerpt from an answer:

One tack that I would like to bring to attention, though, is the fact that what is measured is often what can be measured. This fact alone often skews priorities and can lead to failure precisely because what can be measured may not be mission critical.

Excerpt from another answer:

I noticed that when we measure some tasks and not others, the unmeasured tasks get much less attention and resources and are completed at a much lesser rate than the measured tasks, regardless of who we assign them to.

Excerpt from the blog of an instructional designer:

... the first thing to be sacrificed at the altar of business is "good". Good is a subjective, an often intangible measure. Fast is measurable... Quality, in spite of all the parameters, remains largely unmeasurable.

 - ID and Other Reflections