When it comes to tracking your goals, you may know the importance of measuring. But what, exactly are you measuring? And are you measuring the right thing?
The Ridculousness of Measuring “Progress”
Productivity culture is obsessed with the idea of measuring progress. Here’s why the concept is ridiculous.
Want Sustainable Progress? Stop Measuring Your Results and Measure This Instead.
The settled productivity doctrine is that “you can’t manage what you don’t measure.” By this standard, measuring more frequently is better, right? Not so fast.
How To Track Your Most Important Progress
Sometimes the most important progress is found in what you’re not doing or what’s not happening. How do you measure something that’s not there?
3 Problems With Progress
Progress is the holy grail of any endeavor. We seek to chart it, measure it, and chase it around every corner. The problem is that we don’t know what it looks like.