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6 Steps, 6 Tips to Successful Performance Measurement

If you want performance management to really take hold in your organization, take visible steps to move your organization toward a performance-based culture.

Slapping performance measures on a bureaucratic culture is like adding a solar panel to a steam engine.

Our colleague Babak Armajani offers a few ideas for setting up successful performance measures in his new Management Insights column. READ MORE

Management Insights is published here on Governing.com in collaboration with the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School. The column is moderated by Stephen Goldsmith, a Professor of Government at Harvard Kennedy School (on leave), and deputy mayor of operations for the City of New York.

Elizabeth Daigneau is GOVERNING's managing editor.