ManagementSpeak: We took a cold, hard look at our bottom line and had to make some very tough choices.
Translation: It was either your benefits or our bonuses. Sorry.
This week’s contributor took a cold, hard look at the risks of being identified and decided to remain anonymous.
Principle #3 of the KJR Manifesto (aka Keep the Joint Running: A Manifesto for 21st Century Information Technology) states that bad metrics are worse than no metrics: If you have no metrics you’re ignorant and know it. Bad metrics, in contrast, give either the wrong answer to the right question or answer the wrong question.
Which brings us to the question of how to spot weak managers.
