I know it sounds kinda funny after a year at PlanHQ to think an organisation dashboard is a revolutionary idea… But I’ve been thinking recently about how to ensure we never get behind in a small business where none of us ever have any time or inclination to put in more than a minute to track our progress.

Yesterday, while I was at a morning seminar run by the Results Group, the idea of a quick business dashboard came up. I LOVED it. I am gong to make one. I know it can be done in a web app, I know there are probably a million startups working on it right now. But I want it on my wall, so I’m not buying.

We’re going to get some big colored dots and list all our tasks and then every week change the dots around so that we know where we are on everything.

You can have dashboards for measuring anything, and what I love about paper ones is that you can completely customise them to your business AND that they glare at you from the wall when they are covered in red and orange - The idea being that simply SEEING where you’re going wrong, leads to an automatic re-adjustment to set it right.

Don’t laugh at it’s simplicity, I just saw a roomfull of business owners fall in love with the idea.

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