"I'm Pretty Sure My Scale is Broken"

Did you ever get on the scale after being “really good” for a week and it goes in the wrong direction? 

There’s got to be something wrong with the scale!

Numbers don’t lie (for the most part) but that does not mean we should ignore our intuition.

In business, trusting your gut is important—it’s the product of years of experience, pattern recognition, and deep understanding of your business. 

What happens when you have a strong gut feeling about a decision, but the data paints a different picture?

Ever find yourself:

→ Struggling to align your instinct with the data?

→ Trusting your gut, but second-guessing the numbers?

→ Leaning on data but wondering if it’s missing the bigger picture?

It’s worth asking if you’re measuring the right things…but those KPIs were chosen for a reason…and in most cases, the numbers don’t lie.

Ignoring data is a risk no leader can afford to take.

When you intuitively know something seems off, it may be time to dig deeper, 

I was working with someone who had all the KPIs buttoned up across several business units but they did not have a key component on how their overall funding was expected to be deployed across these units.

This missing metric affected how the different units would operate.

The founder's intuition was correct that something was off. The data was not wrong. It was missing.

When you combine both intuition and data, you get the best of both worlds—strategic foresight with data-backed confidence.

Trust your gut but listen to the numbers most of the time. 

But don’t ignore your intuition when it’s telling you to dig deeper.

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