North Star dashboards

Your most important dashboard shows North Star Metric + supporting indicators. Everyone sees it; everyone aligns to it.

Components

• North Star value (current)
• 7-day and 30-day trend
• Supporting leading indicators (what drives it)
• Segment breakdowns

Keep it simple

10 tiles max. More than that and no one reads it.

Display publicly

Team room display or always-open tab builds shared awareness.

What to do with this

• Build a dashboard around the North Star + its 3-4 inputs, dashboards with 30 metrics are ignored within a month
• Display the dashboard publicly (TV in office, pinned tab, Slack digest), hidden dashboards stop working in 3 weeks
• Add alerts for significant changes (up or down), the dashboard should pull you in when something shifts, not require you to visit
• Review the dashboard as a team Monday morning, without a review ritual the dashboard becomes wallpaper
• Attach an action log, dashboards that show numbers without the "what we did" story lose their power to drive behavior