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Everything is measurable if we’re clever enough to see that it needs measuring – and can devise a way to track it.
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Once you see the beauty of measuring the soft values in your life, other variables kick in, such as the fact that setting numerical targets makes you more likely to achieve them.
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…as knowledge work makes more complex demands of the labor force, it becomes harder to measure the value of an individual’s efforts.
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…without clear metrics… business behavior is vulnerable to unstable whim and shifting forces, and in this volatile scrum deep work has fared particularly poorly.
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…in the absence of metrics, most people fall back on what’s easiest.
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…[the] potent mixture of job ambiguity and lack of metrics… allows behavior that can seem ridiculous… to thrive…
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…there is no getting around the fact that the only measure of a great team – or a great organization, is whether it accomplishes what it sets out to accomplish.
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The best approach to hiring is to put just enough structure in place to ensure a measure of consistency and adherence to core values – and no more.
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The measure of self-motivation in a young person will be the best way to predict upward mobility.
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…the three A’s of metrics: actionable, accessible, and auditable.
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