Office Politics – Page 53

Out with objectives, in with technique?

By: Bob Lewis|In: Industry Commentary|Last Updated: March 30, 2009

Sometimes logic takes you places you’d rather not go.

Take, for example, the four fallacies of metrics described in the KJR Manifesto: Measuring the right things wrong, measuring the wrong things (right or wrong), failing to measure important things, and measuring employees.

I’ve been pondering the connection between fallacy #4 and the financial meltdown. It’s a pretty good connection. Fixing it, though, takes us into strange territory. Here goes:

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Spotting weak managers

By: Bob Lewis|In: Leadership|Last Updated: March 3, 2009

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.

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