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Consider, for example, the world of competitive sports; whereas a generation ago the simple win-loss record may have been the primary focus, the rise of detailed metrics and statistics has revolutionized the way we evaluate the competitive performance of athletes and teams. Performance data has changed the game, so to speak. When it comes to evaluating competitive athletic performance, we have a better understanding of what to pay attention to.",[],{"type":313,"content":319},[320],{"type":265,"value":321,"marks":322},"What about business? How do managers and organizations benchmark competitive performance in the business world? 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The choice, in part, may be encouraged by external pressure from stock analysts and the press.",[],{"type":313,"content":379},[380],{"type":265,"value":381,"marks":382},"“The study was about better understanding how managers and organizations respond to and interpret performance feedback, and what we found is that managers think about different benchmarks independent of each other. In addition, the analysis demonstrated that managers tend to focus on simpler, blunter measures of performance when benchmarking,” Harris says. “That’s just what people in organizations do.”",[],{"type":313,"content":384},[385],{"type":265,"value":386,"marks":387},"“Managers are capable of striving for multiple criteria,” Harris continues. “The findings open the door to thinking more carefully about how organizations actually set targets and evaluate their performance, specifically with respect to multiple decision criteria. 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