
Why You Should Occasionally Ignore Performance Metrics
There’s a peculiar phenomenon that happens in organizations when metrics arrive: everybody suddenly believes they’ve found the secret sauce. Charts appear on dashboards, targets get engraved on team room walls, and conversations become increasingly religious about hitting the numbers. It’s intoxicating—the promise that if we just measure the right things, everything will magically improve. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: sometimes the best decision you can make about your metrics is to throw them out the window....
