Quantifiable Measures or...Stop Sucking

When you dig yourself into a hole, stop digging. If you're a jackass, stop being one. In order to reverse course, you need to stop going in the wrong direction.

Once you stop the bleeding, or at least figure out where the hell it's coming from, you can work on treating the injury. Running around, yelling, crying and wringing your hands is not going to accomplish anything except delay the initiation of corrective action.

A hallmark of effective management requires any goal worth a dam to be measurable and time based. Effective organizations use KPI (Key Performance Indicator) to evaluate progress. If there is no quantifiable goal, there can be no measure of progress. You can't tell if you will get to where you want to go if you don't know where the hell you're going and if you can make it there with the gas you have left.

Describe the objective in quantifiable terms deliverable by a specified date (MT states a date must include a number between 0 and 32 with one of the twelve calendar months next to it), e.g., all sources handle of $15Billion by December 31^st.

Organizations measure the stuff they care about. The things that are measured are the things that get done. If there is no target, nobody can tell if you're actually doing anything. If there is no deadline, there is nothing for which to hold you accountable. If there is no accountability then they might as well put a monkey in your office; as Seinfeld would say, 'Anyone can take a reservation.'

Of course, if that is in in fact the goal, then racing and its 'Zoolanderlike' stewards are dead nuts on.