Dashboard

Know where your whole organization stands, at a glance.

Nine lines, sixty seconds, and one conversation worth having instead of eight status reports.

Mission Metric
Units delivered to spec, on schedule
Yellow
Hat
Key Metric
Light
Finance
Honest Cash Visibility
Green
Fulfillment
Stakeholder Recommendation
Yellow
HR
Employee Engagement
Green
Legal
Risks Proactively Identified
Green
Marketing
Warm Introductions
Yellow
R&D
New Value Created
Red
Sales
Resources Secured
Yellow
Technology
Systems Enable Work
Green
Example: end-of-quarter status for a four-hundred-person specialty manufacturer.

What the lights mean

Green

Green means the function is delivering and needs nothing from you.

Yellow

Yellow means it has drifted far enough that you ask about it.

Red

Red means it needs you now.

The function that turns red is often not the function that broke.

Read separately, three functions are each slightly off. Read together, they point to one cause. The book shows how to read the pattern, where each failure surfaces, and how long it takes to arrive.