Best Score Card of the Week
August 29, 2007 | By Jack Yoest
Your Business Blogger likes to keep score. As an old sales guy, my day was made (or ruined) by my numbers tallied at the close of business. I got paid for performance.
I ate what I killed.
Our culture is moving toward a much more, well, tolerant view of performance.
Liberals do not like to keep score. Everyone gets a trophy. Even at our local high school, Yorktown, players are not even cut from the try-outs for football. Every attempt is rewarded with a spot on the team, and more likely, the bench. It's called a "no cut policy."
And no feelings are hurt.
In the absence of empirical data and real numbers and real measurement and real performance -- any thing goes.
Alberto GonzalesPolitics then becomes the measure. Of good intentions. Feeling your pain. It seems that delivering numbers is becoming as backward as the hill-billies in the movie Deliverance.
Tom McMahon shows us, simply, the result when we don't pay attention to delivering numbers. Here is how the elite, sophisticated anti-Deliverance liberals win with the modern score-card:
Attorney General Scorecard: Janet Reno vs Alberto Gonzales
I ate what I killed to live. Under Clinton, they simply were killed.
Thank you (foot)notes:
In Management Training I teach my students to love, to embrace Office Politics, as a method to make the numbers. Not to avoid the numbers.
