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I suddenly want a listing of company KPIs that were graded successful, but were outright failures. I have personally witnessed my fair share of tire fires which
by fbdab103 4y ago
I suddenly want a listing of company KPIs that were graded successful, but were outright failures. I have personally witnessed my fair share of tire fires which were communicated in a rather fantastical way to management.
- lumost 4y agoThis is the fundamental reason large organizations struggle in the long run. If a cisco vp started a network generative ai initiative tomorrow, and in a year posted some results - do you think those results would ever be received badly? Or would they be massaged until they were good?
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- cpeterso 4y agoEvery Google employee’s OKRs are supposedly readable by anyone in the company. I don’t know if the OKR scoring is also public, but regardless an enterprising individual could scrape other people’s OKRs every quarter and see which keywords are correlated with later promotions.
- aix1 4y ago1. Promotions are not public (by which I mean accessible by anyone at the company). 2. OKRs are not automatically public (some teams choose to publish theirs; many don't).
- hot_gril 4y agoIt's amazing to watch even the lower level SWEs, who don't need to play politics, looking at a dumpster fire and telling their bosses it's great.
- izacus 4y agoThat would probably be 95% of KPIs across all big corporations anywhere. It takes incredible and very rare leadership to be able to admit failures downstream.