The price for informed decision-making is transparency and accountability. And that’s a price that appears too high for many leaders. So they keep their heads in the sand and steer by gut feel. And they pull the wool over everyone else’s eyes with hearsay and anecdote and biased selection of data.

To hold space for high-performance, evidence-based leaders value and use objective evidence to improve organisational performance, as role-models for everyone else.

It's not hard to spend millions on setting up new data management and business intelligence systems. And it can take years to implement, too. Plus there's the tricky piece of getting people to buy in to collection and capturing all that data. But we need to do it, before we can start measuring what matters... Or do we?

It's the week of Christmas and so I don't want to be too heavy and serious. So if you feel inclined to lightly ponder, let me share with you what measuring performance is going to mean for me in 2016. (more&h...