Are Your Monthly Reports Leading The Business Astray?
By Andy Burrows
[First published 29th March 2018]
I remember hearing the old sayings about performance measurement early on in my career, and thinking they were pretty astute – catchy and encapsulating a profound truth. Things like:
“If you don’t measure it, you don’t manage it!”
“What gets measured gets done!”
And I’ve always taken them to mean something positive – if you really value your objective, then measure your progress towards it. If you’re not measuring it, it shows you don’t really care. So, if you really do care, and you want it to get done, then measure it, report it, etc.
But recently that last one – “what gets measured gets done” – has been making me think. There’s a negative side to it as well.
The way you drive
The truth of that saying – “what gets measured gets done” – struck me when I drove my son’s Merc once.
The dashboard has a mode to...
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