An enterprise social network can improve your business, help you ferret out knowledge among your staff, and gauge your organization’s internal temperature.
What does gauge your organization’s internal temperature mean? Does it mean estimate?
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Sign up to join this communityAn enterprise social network can improve your business, help you ferret out knowledge among your staff, and gauge your organization’s internal temperature.
What does gauge your organization’s internal temperature mean? Does it mean estimate?
The main meaning of gauge is measure, but in this case it is not a measurement in the scientific or technical sense.
The actual meaning in this case (which unfortunately appears only in the "for kids" or "for English learners" dictionaries) is to make a judgement. It is somewhat weaker than measure, and somewhat stronger than estimate; not any estimate but one based on some information collected specifically for that purpose.
See the first verb definition here.
Temperature is used here allegorically - body temperature is an indication of health, so it refers to the organization's health. Health of an organization is a slippery idea, but it's supposed to predict its ability to survive, grow, and cope with external challenges.