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Surviving Conventional Wisdom

Oxide and Friends

CHAPTER

How to Measure Your MBOs Effectively

When you measure something in an organization, it's extraordinarily powerful. You've got to use that power really wisely. And if you start measuring things that you don't want people to optimize for, you run the risk of people optimizing for them anyway. So this isn't measure everything. But I have to remember this, but in in the early days of open Solaris, they obviously had some measurement goal of how many licenses for open Solaris went out. There you go. Done and done. That's right.

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