responsible leadership in the age of numbers. ‘numbers saturate the news, politics, and life. for...
TRANSCRIPT
Responsible leadership in the age of numbers
‘Numbers saturate the news, politics, and life.
For good or ill, they are today’s preeminent public
language – and those who speak it
rule.’M. Blastland and A. Dilnot, The Numbers Game, 2009
It all starts with…
!?!
The forest and the tree
We choose what to see
The audit explosion
Principal
Agent
The age of numbers
Googling GDP
36mio
799mio
165mio74mio
37mio
29mio27mio21mio
5mio
Poor Europe…
What we measure affects what we do
Assessments
Incentives Behaviour
Perverse incentives
Crowding out
When money grows on trees…
…trees are worth nothing if they can’t generate money
Responsible leadership in the age of numbers
‘The tyranny of the prevailing system of management’
Looking at the ‘bigger picture’
From sectoral to holistic assessment
Assessing success in the ‘long term’
Rethink rankings: what do they really tell us?
Move beyond (or away from) checklists?
‘Big data’ as a double-edge sword?
Reframing ‘value’: better numbers or no numbers!
Reclaiming our voice
THANKS!
[email protected] for the Study of Governance Innovation
www.governanceinnovation.
org
My blog:www.globalreboot.org
Twitter:@globalreboot