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Re:The McNamara fallacy: Measurement is not understanding by boringg on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @04:12PM (#30169350)
While your experience sounds painful it also sounds like something that would have happened in the 90s. I don't think most tier 1 organizations still think in that way.
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Re:The McNamara fallacy: Measurement is not understanding by bb88 on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @04:19PM (#30169463)
The company exists for the stockholders, not for the employees.

Stack ranking is still used widely throughout Fortune 500 companies, which is one of the most culture destroying management practices known to man.

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Re:The McNamara fallacy: Measurement is not understanding by apohn on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @04:48PM (#30169887)
Less than a decade ago I worked at a company that was acquired by a private equity group. What jscode said matches my experience. For a while I also tracked (on Glassdoor and some other sites) companies that were purchased by that firm, and seems like employees at different companies had the same experience. EBITA was king, nothing else matters.
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