These include: * productivity is hard to measure * there are easier-to-measure proxies, like hours or “appearance of activity”, which crowd out better goals / aspirations * some people and organizational cultures, for that or other reasons, become hostile to productivity
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I feel like “Some people will actively sabotage productivity” sounds like a horrible rumor and/or an excuse from a failed organizing principle like communism. If the existence of the boogeyman seems on face implausible, consider you may have been in extremely successful orgs.
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And/or see the Spider-Man cancer/dinosaur panel. “Wait with your team and budget you could get so much done for our mission this quarter.” “But I don’t particularly care about our mission. I care about getting promoted.” “Wait how are you here.” “I am very good at getting here.”
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“...” “Or our organization is very good at putting me in a position of influence. Six of one half dozen of the other.” “I don’t suppose we could change your incentivize structure to be more in line...” “Already rooted my incentive structure. I am much better at this game.”
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“Wait that isn’t possible.” “I mean you specialize in spending 95% of your cycles on the mission and I specialize in spending 95% of my cycles on incentives. Of course I will win any contest here by crushing margins.” “Nobody detected your insincerity?” “Oh you innocent child.”
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"I mean you're shouting it from the rafters." "Plausibly nobody is more sincere in this company about our incentive structures which, and I hate to keep bringing this up but it is important you understand this, I have rooted. I can speak passionately and at length about them."
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there is a less malevolent but equally destructive version of this which goes ‘In *our* special industry/sector, downside outcomes are particularly bad. We’re going to focus on productivity, but only to the extent that it is risk-free’
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