Performance Points: Friday Edition

• We're always proud of the fact that our customers not only find our tools and methods powerful, but that they're also sustainable. This week the City of Austin, TX, approved their $2.8 billion FY2011 operating budget. As the budget document makes clear, "budgeting for results" is still the way business is done in Austin, more than a decade after Weidner partnered with the City to implement Managing For Results. Check out their budget document; it's a great presentation.
  
• And while we're talking about Austin, TX - congratulations to Ernesto Rodriguez, Director and Chief of Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services (EMS), who has been named the National EMS Executive of the Year!


• Check out what our CEO, Marv Weidner, has to say about Executive Coaching - why it's never been more important for the public sector, and the keys to Coaching that delivers results.


• And last but not least, an oldie but a goodie: one of the most impressive displays of performance information we've seen - and we're not kidding, the video is called "the best stats you've ever seen." From a talk given in 2006 by Hans Rosling as part of that year's TED conference, watch how data about global health and poverty trends comes to life in an utterly compelling way. If you think performance data isn't interesting to your customers, take a fresh look at how you're presenting it.