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Don't know about the rest of you, but I'm stuck in this kind of drivel more and more at work - supposedly moving to a 'data driven' world, but in reality it is this type of skewed unrealistic binary thinking, coupled with threats that 'not making the numbers' (usually all max values) means defective performance. I keep waiting for somebody with half a brain to finally graduate from business school and wake up to this, and how it ends up defeating most of the value of the measure. I keep thinking back to a recent Lutz editorial, where he says flat out that the VW debacle was the CEO's fault, adding something like 'if you make people fear to tell you s/t you don't want to hear, they start to lie, and you don't know what is really going on'. to me, this is basic common sense, not some high level guru-speak.
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