Evidence Over Attestation
“Dashboards flash green. Automated attestations proclaim every test passed. Roadmaps accelerate by quarters.”
Every one of those signals is an attestation, a claim made by the thing being measured, and a board should learn to ask what evidence stands behind it.
More lines from the same part
- “A customer relying on the saved copy would have been arguing from a document that could not defend itself.”
- “Ignorance is rarely total. It is usually three missing pieces in a picture that otherwise looks complete.”
- “That is why the question for every CEO is no longer which tools to buy. It is which people to trust with them.”
- “The people you want building with agents are the ones who will not take a green light for an answer.”