#goodharts-law

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Productivity
fromOff By One
1 week ago

Measuring Engineering Productivity

Engineering productivity can and should be measured to reveal output and guide improvement while minimizing paperwork burden on individual contributors.
Business
fromFast Company
1 month ago

How to leverage 'cultural triggers' to build a high-performance organization

Shifting organizational culture and its rituals is necessary for durable behavior change; incentives alone often backfire due to Goodhart's law.
Marketing
fromThe Drum
1 month ago

How obsession with metrics can kill performance

Optimizing solely for a single metric can harm long-term growth by causing audience fatigue, innovation stagnation, and market-share erosion.
fromThe Drum
1 month ago

Obsession with metrics can kill performance

Firstly, the campaign led to audience fatigue, over-saturating their most engaged customers while ignoring potential new ones. It also resulted in product tunnel vision, whereby the brand stopped promoting its full product range, so missed cross-sell opportunities. Similarly, innovation stagnation meant that new product launches struggled because the algorithm only promoted proven winners. Lastly, it also led to market share erosion, with competitors capturing new customers that the brand had ignored.
Marketing
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