Being busy may feel productive; real progress is measured by outcomes, not motion. Entrepreneurs wear busyness like a badge ...

Looking at bottom-line results in areas such as spending, sales or profits doesn't help you understand how or why you reached those results or how to improve your performance. Setting goals and ...

Lots of people talk about being successful, but how do they know if they are actually making progress? I was recently inspired with a conversation I had with Marc Brownstein, President and CEO of the ...

As more foundations orient toward building community power, assessing progress becomes a critical challenge. Short-term grant cycles do not neatly line up with the long-term arc of social change, and ...

It is hard to improve what you can't measure. However, finding ways to measure progress is difficult unless it is directly related to a certain dollar amount. For instance, how do you measure the ...

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” This famous business maxim, along with several variations, have been attributed to renowned management expert Peter Drucker. They’ve motivated ...

There have been significant efforts at the international, regional and national levels to define, develop and use indicators to measure sustainability. Most significant of these was the United Nations ...

Section 5, Paper 3 – In 1987, the World Commission on Environment and Development called for the development of new ways to measure and assess progress toward sustainable development. This call has ...