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You get what you measure?

Now that is responsible for a lot of nonsense.

If it were true then my adolescent adventures with a tape measure would have yielded rather more impressive results!

And in management circles, it diverts a lot of attention away from managing.

I know of managers who do nothing much else than measure. And it is a very sterile thing - the last resort of those who can't think of what to do.

Management is about doing stuff and encouraging others to do stuff.

Sure, measure results at the end. But if all you do is measure, then you are playing tennis looking at the scoreboard.

Whoops. There's another backhand slicing past you.

Not so much "you get what you measure".

More measure what you got.