Historian @jerryzmuller, known for his writings on Adam Smith, Hegel, Hobbes, Marx and that ilk, has a great little book out called "The Tyranny of Metrics" on the dangers of "metric fixation" in education, health-care, the military, etc., press.princeton.edu/titles/11218.h…
After I finished it this weekend, I thought it would be funny to read venture capital legend @johndoerr's new book, "Measure What Matters," next. The pro-metrics guy against the anti-metrics one, I thought. Except it didn't work out that way whatmatters.com
The books are very different in style (Muller's is much better written), but their arguments turned not to conflict much at all. So I wrote a column on the Doerr-Muller plan for deciding what to measure and what not to bloomberg.com/view/articles/…
Also, while I am pretty hard on Doerr's book in the column ("a shaggy mess"), it does have great stuff in it, including lots of examples of OKR (objectives and key results) lists from Intel, Google and such. In case you're into that kind of stuff bloomberg.com/view/articles/…
