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."  This is the ABQ Business Podcast with your host Jason Rigby and Alexander McCaig Each week we interview leading business leaders to inspire the vision and the spirit that is in every entrepreneur. We discuss strengths, weakness, strategies, systems and the problems we can all solve together to fulfill a shared vision of a new future for ABQ Business. Please go to www.abqpodcast.com where you can get show notes, resources, and links to everything we talked about today to help you navigate your journey as an entrepreneur and business owner in ABQ. Follow me on instagram at @abqjasonrigby or Alexander McCaig on LinkedIn here also sign up for our email list here where I drop marketing secrets to help your ABQ Business!