Organizational Accountability – Fundamental Accountability Drivers

StrategyDriven Organizational Accountability ArticleAs previously stated, we believe organizations act in accordance with the shared values of the people that comprise them. What an organization values is represented by the rewards sought in return for its products and services, the organizationally defined acceptable methods of reward pursuit, and the manner in which benefits realized are parsed to the organization’s members. Therefore, organizational accountability, the timely and consequential pursuit of mission goals, is driven by the ability of the organization to quantifiably measure earned rewards and the culturally determined method of assessing and recognizing employee performance.


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StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 10 – Core Performance Measures

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Episode 10 – Core Performance Measures elaborates on Organizational Performance Measure Best Practice 4 – Core Performance Measures. This discussion…

    • defines what core performance measures are
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    • describes the guiding principles used to create an organizationally aligning measurement system

Decision-Making Warning Flag 1 – Logic Fallacies Introduction

Complex decisions require executives and managers to synthesize a multitude of variables into meaningful information from which they must choose a course of action. Some executives and managers combine clarity of thought and depth of knowledge and experience with a true understanding of the organization’s goals to identify and select a well founded decision option. Others find their perspective clouded by personal bias, self interest, misinformation, inexperience, and/or a lack of decision-making fundamentals knowledge; falling prey to logic fallacies, the misapplication of logic during problem solving. While a lack of knowledge and/or experience with problem solving may contribute to logic errors, they are typically the product of decision-makers’ underlying desires.


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Organizational Accountability – Performance = Results + Behaviors

StrategyDriven Organizational Accountability ArticleOrganizational accountability is built on the premise that individuals are equitably rewarded based on their contribution to the accomplishment of the organization's goals consistent with its ethical values. Performance, therefore, becomes more than just 'making the numbers.'


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StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 9 – Horizontally Shared Organizational Performance Measures

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website.

Episode 9 – Horizontally Shared Organizational Performance Measures elaborates on Organizational Performance Measure Best Practice 2 – Horizontally Shared. This discussion…

  • defines what horizontally shared performance measures are
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  • describes the steps taken to create comparative measures