One person that always seems to have fun around failure is Adam Savage, from Mythbusters. He’s like a big kid, wide-eyed and giggling, as he and his more stoic co-star, Jamie Hyneman, test all kinds of pop-culture myths, like whether you can ride a motorcycle on water, escape a turtled car under water, and put your hand into molten lead and not be injured. Adam routinely says that he doesn’t ca...

Too often we assume that performance measurement depends on technical systems, like a business intelligence system or dashboard application. But for performance measurement to become entrenched in how our organisations work, it's the non-technical systems that matter most.

Donald Trump Jr., on 21st Century TV, interviewed my friends Howard Rohm (CEO) and Gail Stout Perry (Vice-President of Strategic Solutions) from the Balanced Scorecard Institute. During the interview they shared some great tips about strategy design, specifically with their approach to the Balanced Scorecard. They discussed:

• the problems of the C-Suite designing goals that fail ...

We want everyone in the organisation to align their results to the organisation's mission, vision and goals. How do you cascade strategy to create alignment? There are two very different ways.

Evaluation is about looking for improvement. But so is performance measurement. So why don't we call them the same thing? Well, it's because they're different.

Quite a few people still seem to think that performance measures are only needed at the end of the planning cycle, to check and see whether the goals were achieved and the strategic initiatives implemented.

5 Stars -- Important Performance Management Lessons That Speak to Everyone Gary Cokins asked me to endorse this book. And I didn't hesitate, for the value of Chapters 33 and 34 alone!