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Re:Managers, Stop Distracting Your Employees by lifeisstillgood on Sunday April 02, 2023 @06:16PM (#35415863)
Goals at what level? I mean the goals for the CEO are so broad almost anything that is not going to land the board in court is a likely candidate. But for most middle management goals are highly restrictive.

I suspect that the guy who invented gmail (or rather linked ads to the text), had he asked his manager would have been told "hell no, fix the javascript bug that's assigned this week - that is putting us behind target for the month"

I generally think one should measure new or increased capability as opposed to most other metrics.

How is an interesting question

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Re:Managers, Stop Distracting Your Employees by cratermoon on Sunday April 02, 2023 @11:38PM (#35418283)
> I suspect that the guy who invented gmail (or rather linked ads to the text), had he asked his manager would have been told "hell no, fix the javascript bug that's assigned this week - that is putting us behind target for the month"

The history of gmail is that it started as what Google called a 20% project. A side project the developer, Paul Buchheit, worked on with the knowledge of his managers and peers.

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