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Sometimes it is better to do a bad job of measuring something important than a good job of measuring something irrelevant.

"If a metric does not offer predictive power, then capturing that metric is waste."

When you try to incentivize behavior by setting a measurable target, people focus primarily on achieving that measure, often in ways you didn't intend. Most importantly, their focus on the measure may not correlate to the behavior you hoped to promote.

Lead measures, on the other hand, "measure the new behaviors that will drive success on the lag measures."

What could you measure? What would that cost? How fast could you get the results? If you can afford it, try it. "If you measure it, it will improve."