How do you measure the performance of a business book?

Today* stores start selling our book—misLeading Indicators: How to Reliably Measure your Business. It has been a while coming. It’s natural for us as authors to wonder how it will “perform”. Many of our acquaintances wonder too, and ask us how we expect it to perform. Their indicators are usually sales or royalties.  Those are [...]

Brilliant propaganda, but lousy indicator of rate of growth of US debt.

  There is a little graphic being circulated around the Internet intended to show that President Obama has recklessly doubled the total US debt accumulated since President Washington.                   As a piece of political propaganda it is brilliant. It implies that President Obama’s administration is worse than [...]