responsible leadership in the age of numbers. ‘numbers saturate the news, politics, and life. for...

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!

lorenzo.fioramonti@gmail.comCentre for the Study of Governance Innovation

www.governanceinnovation.

org

My blog:www.globalreboot.org

Twitter:@globalreboot