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Performance Metrics That Matter (And the Vanity Metrics That Don't)

Performance Metrics That Matter (And the Vanity Metrics That Don't)

Performance Metrics That Matter (And the Vanity Metrics That Don't)Steve Goodner
Published on: 08/24/2026

Peter Drucker is often credited with the line "what gets measured gets managed." But almost nobody quotes the dangerous half of that truth, that this includes measuring the wrong things and the things that quietly hurt you.

Organizational Optimization
Grow Yourself, Grow Your Business

Grow Yourself, Grow Your Business

Grow Yourself, Grow Your BusinessSteve Goodner
Published on: 08/05/2026

Product knowledge and closing tactics predict the short-term numbers, but the ability to build connection and trust predicts the long-term ones — and that ability is downstream of what you believe about yourself.

Personal Growth
The Communication Rhythms That Keep Teams Aligned

The Communication Rhythms That Keep Teams Aligned

The Communication Rhythms That Keep Teams AlignedSteve Goodner
Published on: 06/23/2026

Communication is the act of sending and receiving signals. Alignment is the result — when the people in your business understand, in the same way, what you are doing, why you are doing it, and what their part is.

Organizational Optimization
Trust Is the Soil

Trust Is the Soil

Trust Is the SoilSteve Goodner
Published on: 06/16/2026

Trust is not the feeling that follows a healthy business. Trust is the soil in which a healthy business grows.

Organizational Optimization