Short term goals · Leading indicators · Component
The tracking cadence
How often each indicator is read and by whom — frequent enough to act on, rare enough to mean something.
The deliverable
What it is
Cadence should follow the lag. Reading a slow indicator weekly produces noise people learn to ignore; reading a fast one monthly wastes the warning it was chosen to provide.
The reader matters as much as the rhythm. An indicator read by nobody in particular is read by nobody.
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What it is made of
Each element is a constituent part of the component. Follow one to see the attributes it carries.
The record
Where readings are kept, so a trend can be seen rather than a point.
2 attributes: Kept in · History retained
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Read at roughly a third of the lag. Faster produces noise; slower wastes the warning the indicator was chosen to give.
The other components in leading indicators
The indicator set
The chosen leading measures, each paired with the lagging outcome it is meant to predict.
LearnThe causal assumption
The stated reason for believing the leading measure actually leads to the outcome — written down so it can be tested rather than merely believed.
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