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Business Strategies: Choosing the Right KPIs for Your Small Business

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By selecting 5-8 KPIs, your force the business to concentrate activity around those key accomplishments. Consider industry benchmarks or standards to ensure alignment. Foreign exchange rate, while important to an international business, is outside its control and largely unactionable. Gourmet restaurants focus on Avg.

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Transcript: Kenneth Tropin

Barry Ritholtz

That’s the foreign exchange markets, and to some extent, commodities. RITHOLTZ: And last question about the various teams, does everybody have a different benchmark? And many of them are going to be trading the most important macro market. So you know, that’s fixed income markets. That’s the equity markets.

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Transcript: Bill Dudley, NY Fed Chief

Barry Ritholtz

But, but, you know, we, I focused mostly on fixed income and foreign exchange. 00:07:47 [Speaker Changed] So, so after, you know, more than 20 years at Goldman, you joined the New York Fed in 2007, overseeing domestic and foreign exchange trading operations, 2007, that, that’s some timing. Ma makes a lot of sense.