"What are our KPIs for this?"
Do those words excite you? Confuse you? Make you rock back and forth with your knees to your chest, holding yourself and whispering, "it's all going to be alright"?
Seriously, we're so busy in Corporate America, we've lost the time to say full words. Instead, we spend our time memorizing extensive lexicons of acronyms. Terribly effficent. For those of you not speaking in tongues, let me save you a second of Googlage.
KPI is an acronym for Key Performance Indicator, and is often used in shorthand to ask this question:
What is success?