Re:Is there data on the quality of management decisions?
by Spooky23 on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @06:00PM
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Using sports, particularly baseball is a terrible proxy, as the core assumption is that each game is a finite event.
That’s really not true at all — key decisions like whether to relieve a pitcher are not made within the context of a game. At a higher level, decisions to trade players are made that will affect outcome as well.
As someone who manages projects, there are parallels from a context point of view to be drawn to baseball. Each project is a measure of success or failure, but my effectiveness isn’t defined by individual projects. I may choose to do a project less efficiently to control cash flow or prioritize something else.
That’s really not true at all — key decisions like whether to relieve a pitcher are not made within the context of a game. At a higher level, decisions to trade players are made that will affect outcome as well.
As someone who manages projects, there are parallels from a context point of view to be drawn to baseball. Each project is a measure of success or failure, but my effectiveness isn’t defined by individual projects. I may choose to do a project less efficiently to control cash flow or prioritize something else.