Most knowledge workers have no clear idea what their metrics are. Performance review season then becomes an exercise in reconstructing what happened and why it mattered.
A personal KPI measures output or impact, can be tracked without heroic effort, and would matter to your manager in a performance conversation. Ask: what does excellent look like in my role?
Start with five to seven measures. Track a baseline, current value, trend, and the most recent meaningful change. Your dashboard can live in your AI headquarters and be updated when something meaningful happens.
A dashboard that exists is infinitely more useful than a perfect one you have not built. Start with two metrics and add from there.
This is part of the Your AI Chief of Staff series, a practical guide to building a personal operating system for knowledge work.
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