Friendly discussions about life, business, engineering, and learning between Dima Malenko and Slava Rudnytskyi.
Friendly discussions about life, business, engineering, and learning between Dima Malenko and Slava Rudnytskyi.
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Dima and Slava discuss the spreadsheet mentality and the general difficulties of making data-driven decisions while not loosing the forest for the trees.
Spreadsheet mentality (sometimes called "spreadsheet thinking") refers to an overly mechanistic or reductionist approach to decision-making and management that relies too heavily on quantitative metrics while ignoring qualitative factors and nuance.
Quotes on the topic
"What gets measured, gets managed.” – attributed to Peter Drucker or W. Edwards Deming
"Without data, you're just another person with an opinion." – W. Edwards Deming
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” – Goodheart’s Law
“Tell me how you will measure me, and then I will tell you how I will behave. If you measure me in an illogical way, don’t complain about illogical behaviour.” – Eliyahu Goldratt