> Your bosses optimize for those metrics because it's the one they can communicate higher up on the short time they can get higher ups attention.
That's their problem and not mine, is it?
A good manager doesn't just reflect the lightning bolt to their underlings. They absorb part of the shock and process / transform what they will transfer down below. If they aren't doing that then they aren't managers; they are uneducated opportunists in suits.
> If it were because the metric was any good, there wouldn't be so many cases of companies bankrupted by technical and cultural debits pilling up.
Your bosses optimize for those metrics because it's the one they can communicate higher up on the short time they can get higher ups attention.
If it were because the metric was any good, there wouldn't be so many cases of companies bankrupted by technical and cultural debits pilling up.