KPIs: When 'Moving the Needle' Becomes a Magic Trick cover art

KPIs: When 'Moving the Needle' Becomes a Magic Trick

KPIs: When 'Moving the Needle' Becomes a Magic Trick

Listen for free

View show details

About this listen

 We’ve all applauded dashboards while the actual work quietly slipped backward. This episode performs a forensic audit of KPIs and OKRs to expose how metrics can be used as theater—feelings dressed as targets—rather than tools for decision-making. Dr Disruptor skewers the euphemisms that let leadership celebrate motion without progress, and The Survivor supplies humane, tactical moves listeners can use immediately. You’ll learn five red flags of metric theater, a fast triage flow to decide which metrics deserve effort, and three copy-paste scripts to ask for a baseline, a named owner, and timebound success criteria. The episode also shows how to convert a vanity metric into a small experiment with a hypothesis and acceptance criteria. Practical, non-hostile, and actionable, this episode ends with a downloadable 'KPI Translation Layer' one-pager to paste into Slack or meeting notes. Visit the show site to grab the one-pager and submit your strangest dashboard moment.
No reviews yet
In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.