Measuring happiness – Some practical advice for David Cameron’s latest idea

Dear Prime Minister,

I understand your point that we should not just think about money, but the idea of measuring the nation’s happiness, fills me with woe (and my happiness quotient dropped as a result).  Let me explain why I have some concerns about this idea by explaining the problems of measuring the nation’s happiness [...]

Judgement and Evidence: Audience Q&A

Using Judgement and Evidence in Modern Balanced Scorecards: the use of subjective and qualitative measures. Audience questions and responses I presented a BetterManagement webinar on this subject, on 14th October, and it received a lot of interest. You can listen again to the webcast on the better management site (See link at the end)

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Trusting staff to develop and provide measures for you

Do you trust your staff?

A post on the PMA forum reminded me of a conversation I once had with a client’s middle management team. It was during the balanced scorecard measures design workshop.

I suggested they talk to their staff about the measures and targets and even use some subjective measures.

They back peddled [...]

A culture of performance

A culture of performance

Good performance should develop a culture of performance, rather than one of “Measure mania” and “The tyranny of targets”.

This underpins how we implement balanced scorecards that make a difference to an organisation

I define a culture of performance as:

A visible and explicit pattern of behaviour, actions and values, working [...]