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Monday, August 18, 2003
Management by Baseball -- While on the subject of metrics, this is the start of an entertaining and wise weblog essay on...
The Seductions (& Giant Sucking Sounds) of Metrics
In business endeavors w/quantifiable results (manufacturing and sales for example) there's a near-erotic fascination with 'metrics'. Measurement with numbers is a great idea I endorse thoroughly, but too many of the folk who create them are not numerate. Those who have a 'tin ear' for numbers are likely to grab onto the most measureable factors or the most well-known numbers or the most obvious (the most obvious are usually the most well-known).
And those numbers frequently are JPI (just plain irrelevant), sapping the organization's mojo and torque in a myriad of ways...
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