Metrics

The Problem with Individual Performance Metrics

I stumbled upon a blog post on Hacker News that I wanted to write about for a while. In it, Dan North, a consultant from the UK, talks about the

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The Rat Race: The Dangers of Short-Sighted Employee Productivity Metrics

In 2011, the film Moneyball brought data-driven decisions into the spotlight. The 2003 book by Michael Lewis told the story of Billy Beane, the Oakland Athletics general manager. Beane assembled

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