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For the most part, metrics are reviewed daily by their owners and weekly in the WBR, so that expected fluctuations become familiar and exceptions stand out.
Working Backwards
Colin Bryar and Bill Carr
The most important cure is to **invest in great process**. Whatever you’re making — products, marketing, research, policy, or service — you need to have a clear, complete process for getting it done, from end-to-end. Until you do, you’ll probably be stuck in meeting hell.
Meetings are like smashing something with a hammer because you don’t have any other tools in your shop. Great process is lightweight, efficient, and adaptable. Too much is bad but not enough is worse. You need things like clear planning processes and well organized product development and design process that include all functions. And you need program managers (PgM, DpM, TpM, OMGpM) whose major job is to take care of this stuff. A great program manager can measure their worth in meetings removed.
Too Many Meetings Is Not Your Problem
Judd Antin
An Objective is like a mission statement, only for a shorter period of time. I think of it like this: A mission is an Objective for five years, and an Objective is a mission for three months.
Radical Focus SECOND EDITION
Christina Wodtke
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