Revenue is a Lagging Metric: Focus on Growth Drivers Instead

🚨 NEWS FLASH: Revenue is a lagging metric 🚨

This is one of the cardinal sins of business.

If you’re making decisions based on revenue, you’re looking in the rearview mirror—seeing what happened in the past, not what’s happening now or coming next.

Please stop. It’s not going to go how you want it to go, and you are going to be in for a wild ride.

Focus on Controllable Growth Levers

Instead, focus on the controllable actions that produce revenue:

  • Improving team performance
  • Refining your offer
  • Enhancing customer experience
  • Optimizing your sales process

These are the levers you can pull to drive growth—and they’ll keep your business ahead of the curve.

Look at the things that generate revenue. Look at the things you can control.

When you focus on those, you can tune, shift, and focus on those things that will generate not only revenue but profitability and help you have a much more stable, scalable, and even more fun business.

Keep Your Eyes on the Road

Run your business with your eyes on the road, not stuck in the past.

Take that tip. Run with it. And if you want more tips like this, subscribe to The Bizdoctor Podcast, available on Apple and Amazon Music.

What revenue-producing activities are you focusing on? Let me know below! ⬇️