Yeah. Management metrics (at least in my experience) often don't catch the "dumb", but they do catch the "get things done", so it creates a disincentive to do t

Yeah. Management metrics (at least in my experience) often don't catch the "dumb", but they do catch the "get things done", so it creates a disincentive to do things smart. Under those conditions Dumb-Energetic will put your project in a hole that no amount of Smart-Energetic can dig you out from; the sad but correct diagnosis is often to just shoot the problem and cover over the hole so you can build on it. But first, fix the incentives and change the metrics that govern decisions, or else it's going to happen all over again - THIS is the chokepoint, because so many leadership staff are (emotionally) invested in the current metric.