5 Leading Indicators: What Are They, and How to Use Them
If you cannot put a number on it, it is not a metric. If you cannot normalize it, it is not a good metric.
Gary Lopez Law of Leading Indicators
At the expense of once again exceeding my “modesty scale” by quoting myself, my experience has shown that the aforementioned quote is a truism. How did I come to know this truth? Trial and error. Watching some leading metrics fail. Watching others succeed. In summary, I learned by experience.
As I noted in the Preface of this book, experience is a funny thing. What worked well for me, might not work for another in a different set of circumstances. It is why I continue to deliver the message in these pages that the metrics will vary depending on ...
Get Safety Metrics for the Modern Safety Professional now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
