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129. How the Future Works with Slack’s Brian Elliott and Sheela Subramanian

At Work with The Ready

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The Doom Loop and the Boom Loop

The doom loop is you start off with monitoring, right? The monitoring is the way in which you tell whether or not people are working. It's the lazy input driven mechanism of, you know, if people are sitting at their desks then I know that they are working. They may or may not be results in people putting in place meaningless metrics. And so we're either telling them to turn off their brain, which is pretty horrifying, or you know, they're just going to perform to that metric and not really do anything more than what's required.

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