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2026-04-24

Score Your Key Result Areas and Fix the Weakest

By The Eat That Frog Team

Every job, Tracy argues, can be broken into five to seven key result areas, the outputs you absolutely must deliver for which you are fully responsible. Weakness in any one can hold back everything else.

Give yourself a grade from one to ten in each area. Your weakest key result area often sets the height at which you can use all your other skills, it is the ceiling on your effectiveness.

Ask the powerful question: what one skill, if I developed and did it in an excellent fashion, would have the greatest positive impact on my career? Then make improving that area a frog worth eating.

Put this into practice, start free

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