If you did that, you'd get a lot of tasks completed early. The next question is: how do you ensure those tasks are actually improving things? At my company the

If you did that, you'd get a lot of tasks completed early. The next question is: how do you ensure those tasks are actually improving things? At my company they reward "impact" and base promotions on that. The problem with that is now we have a zillion internal tools that need to be maintained. Lots of things were indeed built, but did they make things better for the rest of the org?