![rw-book-cover](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc2d51c6e-eaf1-41ed-aae7-8518a2ef9bda_1204x828.png) ## Metadata - Author: [[Ergest xheblati|Ergest Xheblati]] - Full Title:: Bring Instant Clarity to Business Objectives - Category:: #🗞️Articles - Document Tags:: [[Metric trees|Metric Trees]], - URL:: https://sqlpatterns.com/p/bring-instant-clarity-to-business - Read date:: [[2025-03-24]] ## Highlights > • Understand the overall business goal (e.g. exponential growth, profitability, etc) > • Understand how that goal maps hierarchically to a specific objective > • Map each objective to a metric and decompose it into input and output metrics > • Help stakeholders figure out which of those input metrics (levers) they can drive ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jq48v1mqbygmqvfhv7wqbxvb))