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> It's about maximizing individual management KPI

so you could argue that those people setting the KPI is either incompetent, or they themselves benefit from such a KPI (at the cost of the company going down).



“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” -- Goodhart's law

Could just be that chasing KPIs is inherently bad because people will game them no matter what.




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