Our scorecard metrics are updated before our Level 10 Meeting, but our leaders routinely challenge the accuracy of each other's data during the meeting, turning our review into an argument over whose numbers are correct. How do we establish a single source of truth?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

Debating data accuracy during your Level 10 Meeting™ is a massive waste of time that completely derails your weekly pulse. The scorecard is meant to give you a quick, objective pulse on the health of the business, not to serve as an arena for spreadsheet reconciliation. If your leaders are arguing over whose data is correct, you have a lack of alignment on metric definitions and ownership.

To solve this, you must establish a single source of truth before the meeting starts. Every metric on your scorecard must have a single, named owner on the Accountability Chart. That owner is solely responsible for defining the metric, gathering the data, and ensuring its accuracy.

If other leaders have questions about how a number was calculated, they are forbidden from debating it during the scorecard review. Instead, they must drop the issue to the list.

During the IDS® portion, the team can address the underlying data definition discrepancy once, define a standard operating procedure for how that metric is tracked, and commit to it moving forward. Once the definition is finalized in your V/TO® and scorecard guidelines, the debate is over. Your Level 10 Meeting™ must rely on clean, uncontested data so you can focus on solving operational bottlenecks rather than arguing over math.