What's the score... you should know!

If you’re not keeping score, you’re probably getting beat!

If how you play or perform were all that mattered, then why do all sporting activities have some form of scoreboard? The scoreboard is your report card and it tells you and the world that you are winning, losing, or holding your ground.

Keeping score and inspecting your progress is important, not only in determining the ultimate winner of a contest, but also as a measuring device by which a person, team or company can gauge itself against the competition.

Ask yourself this question and others of similar nature, “How are we doing relative to our nearest competitor?

Specific questions on performance measurement are usually met with blank stares, kind of a light’s on but nobody’s home kind of stare. If not that then very vague or non-specific answers soon follow.

If you don’t know the score – you have a better than average chance of being the competitive sacrificial lamb.