Success Leaves Clues
In motivational speaker Tony Robbins’ book Unlimited Power, he makes the following statement:
“Long ago, I realized that success leaves clues, and that people who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results.”17
When you begin to go down the path of having a data-driven HR department, you actually prove this quote to be true. Why? You aren’t working solely from your gut anymore - instead you have INSIGHT that backs up every step.
There is a key word in this sentence, though, that you may have overlooked: it is the word do. The quote doesn’t say that people who produce outstanding results generate amazing charts and visualizations. It says that these people do something to create great results.
In 1956, cognitive psychologist George A. Miller produced a paper that is frequently referenced amongst psychologists called “The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity...