Question for a Leader

Really interesting question to help tease out leadership characteristics from passionate people:
How have you made a tough decision based on data?

Big Idea of the Day (BID): Allocating decision rights

Zimmerman frames the dilemma of allocating decision rights in a company as consisting of three dimensions
1) Who has decision rights?

2) What are the performance measures that we will use to know how we are doing?

3) What reward systems will we put in place to reward our people?