Two curious facts from my consulting work:
1. Executive dashboards suck. And CEOs and founders I work with are frustrated at the state of reporting.
2. These senior executives rarely do anything about it.
Why? I have some ideas:
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Oh man, this is a *really* important topic, and one that I think about a lot. Thank you for writing such a wonderful collection of thoughts — I now have to read Four Disciplines of Execution!
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Ha me too - my brother rarely *raves* about anything and he loves it.
Would love to hear your thinking on the topic! I feel like I have more questions than answers :)
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I think one of the more arresting things in your piece is your observation that execs *don’t seem to want to change the metric*
There’s something terrifying about accidentally hitting Goodhart’s law, even though you probably have to in order to discover the right input metric.
I’ve seen this first hand in two different companies, so reading it in your piece made me go “oh, dammit, it’s that common”
I wonder if there are other reasons.
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Yeah - I'm really not sure either. I hint at power, confidence etc in the post. But it's not 100% clear to me which is exciting - because it means my mental model of executives is missing some key pieces! Love that feeling of touching on the edges of your own knowledge
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