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Unless You Track Your Progress, Setting Goals Is a Waste of Effort
Two-thirds of senior managers can’t name their firms’ top priorities and more than 80% of small business owners don’t keep track of business goals.
So the problem is that while companies probably have some sort of goals, the progress towards those goals is not measured.
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