> Why would your first instinct be to lie about what's happening with the business? To what end? If your compensation or continued employment is tied to metri

> Why would your first instinct be to lie about what's happening with the business? To what end? If your compensation or continued employment is tied to metrics, especially metrics that aren't inherently valuable, then there's much more incentive to game/fudge them than to do the work to actually resolve them.