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Whats are some ways to manage unmeasurable things?
by BurningFrog 2y ago
Whats are some ways to manage unmeasurable things?
- dghlsakjg 2y agoEmpathy, trust, and experience.
- tmpz22 2y agoLeadership, humility, kindness
- nier 2y agoCoherence, balance, taste.
- DiscourseFan 2y agoone, two, three
- Almondsetat 2y agoLive, laugh, love
- lazystar 2y agoby having a vision of an ideal future
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- piuantiderp 2y agoActual intelligence. The measurable is always, once you have your number, make it go up!!!!!!!
- glimshe 2y agoIntuition and experience-based decision making. Team member says they are feeling less creative because their kid is having bullying problems in school. "Can't measure the creativity, can't measure the bullying... Can't manage this situation, sorry"
- dyauspitr 2y agoThat’s also the kind of stuff I always hear from people that love to shoot from the hip and trust their gut feel. The results those people have is invariably inconsistent, there’s no way to scale any of their knowledge and honestly at the end of the day it’s just a person reacting to a situation.
- dwb 2y agoYou assume there is a way to scale certain kinds of knowledge, or that the current metrics-supremacy is it. I get it, humans are inconsistent and squishy, but at least we can be reasoned with. Stripping complex realities down to “metrics”, often without error bars even, gives fake authority to dangerous approximations. You can’t argue with numbers! They’re so precise and correct.
- 9dev 2y agoDiscussions like these always feel too reductive to me. Both of you take extremist positions, when I’m sure you do both agree that the proper approach is obviously a middleground: Strive to gather objective numbers and measure things as much as possible to become able to make factual decisions, but don’t disregard human intuition just because it’s not measurable; after all, it’s a tool shaped by millions of years of evolution, culminating in creatures ruling the world due to their ability to assess social contexts correctly. To put it differently—measure what you can; trust your feelings on the rest.
- glimshe 2y ago"Measure what you can" isn't the right approach. You can measure many, many things. Instead, you should measure things whenever they are good proxies for the outcomes you want to drive AND there is good cost benefit in measuring+analyzing them. Surprisingly few things meet these criteria.