Which is the kind of thinking that underlies the endless 'manageement team dashboard' apps that exist in the corporate world, because some higher up has decided

Which is the kind of thinking that underlies the endless 'manageement team dashboard' apps that exist in the corporate world, because some higher up has decided that the best way to get an overview of the company is to come up with some Key Performance Metrics, then measure them and watch them religiously. Which, like any score-base system, leads to results being gamed rather than the underlying performance being properly affected. Witness the banking crash - traders incentivised for short-term deals and not (by and large or significantly) penalised for them going wrong later, so they inflate a bubble. Now we have armies of economists arguing for longer bonus vesting periods or for penalty clauses, but they're missing the underlying problem that the system simply doesn't work.