Foundations of Evidence-Based Leadership
The philosophical foundation. Five measurement traditions, five fatal flaws, one missing question. Why the Balanced Scorecard made things worse — and what Deming actually said.
Foundations of Evidence-Based Leadership establishes the epistemological foundation beneath the MetriqOne framework. It surveys five major measurement traditions — from scientific management through the Balanced Scorecard to OKRs — and identifies a common structural failure: all five produce tools for evaluation rather than instruments for evidence.
The central question — when does a measurement count as evidence? — is one that seventy years of performance measurement literature has failed to answer. This book answers it, using Deming as a pivotal reference point to show how the field misread its own most important contribution.