Share of U.S. local governments that give a live status to none of their objectives — split by whether they link their strategy (strategy maps or cross-element dependencies). Lower is better.
→ Among governments that never link their work, 73% score zero objectives. Among those that do link, only 14% do. Correlation, not proof — but they travel together tightly.
Source: ClearPoint Strategy · Based on 150+ U.S. local governments on the ClearPoint platform · clearpointstrategy.com/data · June 2026. "Link" = the government has at least one strategy map or cross-element dependency. "Score zero" = no objective carries a live evaluation status. Correlational, not causal.