Poisonous Cobras: The Problem with Optimizing and Measuring People - Goodhart's Law

The story in today's podcast shows what can happen when you focus on optimizing without taking the human perspective into consideration. Leadership is about Humans First! Rewards and punishments that we put onto our team has to be examined with humility and decentralized decision making.  

Goodhart's Law is expressed simply as: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” 

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