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This article made me realize that goal setting is really a specialized case of "beware of the metrics you set". Whatever you decide to measure is always what pe
by JunkDNA 18y ago
This article made me realize that goal setting is really a specialized case of "beware of the metrics you set". Whatever you decide to measure is always what people focus on, so you need to be darn sure you're measuring the correct things or you end up with huge distortions in people's behavior.
- ssanders82 18y agoThis is something that Joel Spolsky has hammered on repeatedly, regarding employee motivation - http://www.inc.com/magazine/20081001/how-hard-could-it-be-sins-of-commissions.html http://www.inc.com/magazine/20081001/how-hard-could-it-be-si...