The Dashboard Trap

Your team just added six new metrics to the weekly dashboard. Someone spent three days building it. Now you can track everything.

And that's the problem.

The data that was supposed to illuminate your path is now casting shadows. Each new metric adds noise, not clarity. Each additional dashboard creates questions, not answers.

Here's the pattern: The more data you track, the less you actually see.

Think about the last time you made a truly great decision. Chances are, you had less data than you have now. You had constraints. Limitations. And those limitations forced you to rely on something else: judgment.

The solution isn't more data. It's better questions.

Try this: Pick the single metric that would tell you if your project is working. Just one. The one number that captures the essence of what matters.

Everything else is just commentary.