Tag: incentives

• Illumination

  

  Photo by Roma Kaiuk🇺🇦 on Unsplash The joke is old because it keeps working. One person’s résumé says:Single-handedly managed the successful upgrade and deployment of a new environmental illumination system with zero cost overruns and zero safety incidents. Someone watching the work says:He changed a light bulb. We laugh because we recognize the move. A…

  Dom

  February 8, 2026

  Business Communication, Leadership & Teamwork, Work Trends

  abstraction, Accountability, Business, complexity, data governance, decision making, execution, incentives, Knowledge management, Leadership, metrics, operational risk, organizational design, organizational failure, scale, Strategy, systems thinking

• The Cost of Counting the Wrong Things

  

  When the Numbers Lie Open the quarterly dashboard at almost any large company and you’ll see green lights everywhere: tickets closed ahead of schedule, calls answered in under thirty seconds, 120 percent of the sales target achieved. On paper it all looks beautiful—until you talk to the people who live behind the numbers. They describe broken…

  Dom

  May 11, 2025

  Uncategorized

  Business Ethics, dashboards, decision-making, incentives, judgment, kpis, Leadership, metrics, organizational culture, performance reviews, systems thinking, value creation, workplace psychology