What Determines a Good Leader… 5 Standards That Must Be Established Before Data

What Is Needed Before Data and Intuition Is a Structure of Judgment… Five Axis Standards to Keep Dozens of Daily Decisions Stable A leader's day is a succession of decisions. They must constantly judge whether to hire new personnel, how to distribute a limited budget among projects, whether to continue or stop a project with recurring problems, and up to what point to accept unreasonable demands from clients. The issue is not the number of decisions, but the consistency of judgment criteria. Yesterday's decisions were based on data, but today's might follow experience and intuition, and the next day's might rely on the opinion of the person who argued most strongly in a meeting. It is difficult to explain this solely as a matter of an individual leader's judgment. If an organization lacks pre-determined criteria on what to judge and how in any given situation, decisions are likely to flu…