Being data-driven

March 12th, 2015  |  Published in Uncategorized  |  1 Comment

Via Rands in Repose: The Joyless World of Data-Driven Startups

Our capability to measure and record data is rapidly improving, at a time when more and more leaders are trying to protect their status and image by walking the middle ground, pre-calculating every decision and spoken word. The result is that the world increasingly uses and relies on data-driven decisions, from the smallest trivial matters, to policies in large corporations and entire countries. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it’s critical. But sometimes it fails, or results in unintended consequences that we may not notice for years.

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  1. Adam Connor says:

    March 18th, 2015 at 11:24 am (#)

    Great article. The obsession with measurements always makes me think of the “McNamara fallacy”: http://horning.blogspot.com/2007/04/mcnamara-fallacy.html (which, indeed, I first read of in Supermoney).

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