Chapter 11

Measuring results and defining success

As any large organisation knows, we need to measure our progress towards our vision as a set of results that indicates the extent to which we are making headway as desired. The SDGs themselves are accompanied with a set of measurements that will serve this purpose for world leaders and associated institutions. There will also be those amongst us who will find roles as monitor-evaluators. These people will be able to use such data to encourage, lobby, cajole or celebrate as they see fit. But results are very left-brain, logical and rational, as indeed they need to be. Success, however, is more right-brain, more creative and inspiring. Success is both an outcome and a feeling. It is a felt-sense ...

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