Partner Performance: Defining the Metrics

Standard deviation curveHow do you know whether you’re working hard on the right things?

By August J. Aquila
What Makes a Great Partnership

Over the last 10 years, I have conducted surveys with the PCPS division of the AICPA, which dealt with performance management.

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In 2006 only 10 percent of the firms responding to the survey indicated that their partners had written goals. Six years later, only 11 percent of the firms responding to the survey indicated that their partners have written goals.