[chezlaw]

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There's the danger of the management fallacy. Management works on things they can measure so they find something they can measure, work on it (hopefully correctly) and then make decisions based on it. All the time forgetting that the thing they can measure often doesn't reflect very well the thing they were supposed to manage in the first place.

but try telling them that.


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Sorry I'm a little dense, you're saying that managers are supposed to be managing things they can't measure? right? And/or that most managers just can't do their job right?


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Its a tough old world and the real things can't easily be measured (not claiming they always cannot be). So many end up managing something that can easily be measured even through its not much to do with the hard to measure thing they were supposed to be managing.

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And, um, I guess I agree with DS here: chains of deduction aren't exactly efficient with most people, but they're pretty much the only way to really converse with each other.

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I agree with DS about the chains of deductions but its no use if people have started from different premises and don't realise it. The deduction bit is generally very simple, often trivial.

chez