If you are interested in these ideas, you should know that this essay kicks off a series of essays that culminates, a year later, with an examination of the Ama

If you are interested in these ideas, you should know that this essay kicks off a series of essays that culminates, a year later, with an examination of the Amazon-style Weekly Business Review: https://commoncog.com/becoming-data-driven-first-principles/ https://commoncog.com/becoming-data-driven-first-principles/ https://commoncog.com/the-amazon-weekly-business-review/ https://commoncog.com/the-amazon-weekly-business-review/ (It took that long because of a) an NDA, and b) it takes time to put the ideas to practice and understand them, and then teach them to other business operators!) The ideas presented in this particular essay are really attributed to W. Edwards Deming, Donald Wheeler, and Brian Joiner (who created Minitab; ‘Joiner’s Rule’, the variant of Goodhart’s Law that is cited in the link above is attributed to him) Most of these ideas were developed in manufacturing, in the post WW2 period. The Amazon-style WBR merely adapts them for the tech industry. I hope you will enjoy these essays — and better yet, put them to practice. Multiple executives have told me the series of posts have completely changed the way they see and run their businesses.