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The McNamara Fallacy of Metrics Substack (Jono Hey) The McNamara Fallacy is a belief in easy-to-measure quantitative metrics at the expense of ignoring hard-to-measure qualitative factors. FY24 Federal Program Inventory Created Using AI We The Doers (April Harding) OMB has … Continue reading →

The Futures Mandate: How to Embed Foresight in Governance Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies This brief provides a good overview of international trends in addressing the challenge of planning for the long term, starting with the 2024 UN Summit of … Continue reading →

Performance Management Checklist Barrett & Greene Here’s a handy checklist of a dozen proven pieces of advice to improve your organization’s performance management system! How You Count Matters! Bloomberg News Traffic death statistics in the US may be misleading. By … Continue reading →

Easy Measures Barrett & Greene States and localities often measure their success, but too often they focus on data that’s easier to collect but may be less helpful in achieving a desired result. OMB Backpedals on Risk Management Federal News … Continue reading →

Accountability in Public Administration: From Concepts to Empirical Tests Handbook of Accountability Research (2026) Public accountability is a crucial element of democratic governance relating those with power to the democratic audiences for whom they govern. . . In recent years, … Continue reading →