10 min read · July 16, 2026

What is People Analytics and Why does Most HR Data Fail to Drive Decisions?

People analytics is the practice of using employee data, from performance reviews, goal completion, and engagement scores, to make evidence-based workforce decisions. It replaces gut-feel... Read more

Bastin Gerald
Bastin Gerald
July 16, 2026  ·  10 min read
Mission Profit Insight
27 min read · April 27, 2026

Trust Profit: Measuring and Building the Public Confidence That Makes Government Effective

ABSTRACT Public trust is the most fundamental input to government effectiveness. Without trust, voluntary compliance declines and enforcement costs rise.…

Bastin Gerald Bastin Gerald
Mission Profit Insight
22 min read · April 27, 2026

The Integrated Mission Profit Framework: Connecting Every Dimension of Government Performance to Democratic Accountability

ABSTRACT — SERIES SYNTHESIS This series began with a provocation: that government knows how to measure compliance but not performance;…

Bastin Gerald Bastin Gerald
Thought Leadership
7 min read · April 27, 2026

The Single Source of Truth: Ending the Fragmentation of Benefit Data Across the Enterprise

The Single Source of Truth: Ending the Fragmentation of Benefit Data Across the Enterprise How to consolidate benefit measurement into…

Bastin Gerald Bastin Gerald
Thought Leadership
6 min read · May 13, 2026

How Immutable Check-In Records Build Trust in Investment Reporting

How Immutable Check-In Records Build Trust in Investment Reporting Why the most important feature of a benefits tracking system is…

Bastin Gerald Bastin Gerald
Strategy Insight
6 min read · May 28, 2026

The Savings You Negotiated Are Not the Savings You Delivered

The Savings You Negotiated Are Not the Savings You Delivered Why procurement teams that win at the negotiating table still…

Bastin Gerald Bastin Gerald
Hierarchical Planning
13 min read · April 27, 2026

Top-Down Plan Distribution: How to Cascade Targets Without Losing Team Autonomy

Setting targets from the top is efficient, but rigid cascades kill ownership. Here’s how to distribute plans downward while preserving…

Bastin Gerald Bastin Gerald
Hierarchical Planning
13 min read · April 27, 2026

Bottom-Up Planning: When Ground-Level Insights Should Override Executive Targets

Teams closest to execution often have the most accurate view of what’s achievable. A framework for when bottom-up plans should…

Bastin Gerald Bastin Gerald
Adaptive Planning
14 min read · April 27, 2026

The Aggregation Gap: What Happens When Bottom-Up Plans Don’t Meet the Top-Down Target

When team-level plans are aggregated upward and the total falls short of the organizational target, you have an alignment gap.…

Bastin Gerald Bastin Gerald
Adaptive Planning
12 min read · April 27, 2026

Plan Propagation Rules: Controlling What Changes Cascade and What Stays Local

Not every parent plan change should ripple downward. Not every child change should silently alter the parent view. Propagation rules…

Bastin Gerald Bastin Gerald
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