Organizations can maintain performance discipline by:

1. Selecting metrics - best to use a balanced scorecard that incorporates trailing and leading indicators, quantitative and qualitative indicators
2. Setting review rhythm - for example all company quarterly updates, monthly senior management meetings, regular one-on-ones with key stakeholders
3. Ongoing monitoring of metrics
4. Discussing the metrics and making decisions to change the course

A prerequisite for performance discipline is the decision-making discipline, thanks to which the organization can act upon metrics. To have a good decision-making discipline an organization must:

• Be able to make decisions with only a few critical factors without the need to get all the data
• Recognize options and their consequences
• Put those options under discussion with different perspectives with focus on benefits and risks