getAbstract summary of The Tyranny of Metrics

This weeks’ sample getAbstract book summary features The Tyranny of Metrics by Jerry Z Muller.

In, the Tyranny of Metrics, Muller provides a riposte to bean counters everywhere, and explains how to use statistics properly within the context that recognises the value of experience and gut feel in decision making.

This week you can download the summary for free from Work Place Learning Centre

Since Peter Drucker coined the phrase ‘what gets measured gets done’ businesses of all kinds have been fixated on measurements, even when to create the measurement without purpose was a pointless activity that wasted management time, and could potentially distract employees, managers and the organisation from the achievement of its objectives.

As employee relations move towards the construction of hiring to retiring relationships more executives, policy advisers and organisational leaders will welcome Muller’s practical insights into how organisations can move away the fixation on measurement, and more towards a values-based approach.

This week you can download the summary for free from Work Place Learning Centre

Writing in the Financial Times Tim Harford said that many of us have the vague sense that metrics are leading us astray, stripping away context, devaluing subtle human judgement, and rewarding those who know how to play the system. Muller's book says Harford ‘crisply explains where this fashion came from, why it can be so counterproductive’ and perhaps importantly ‘why we don't learn’ from it.

But you don’t have to read the full book! Because we are making the getAbstract summary of The Tyranny of Metrics by Jerry Z Muller available to you free of charge until 7^th July.

What you will learn from this getAbstract book summary of The Tyranny of Metrics is extensive

• Why and how organizations embrace metrics,
• Why a “metric fixation” can be damaging and
• What you can do to make measurements more useful

This week you can download the summary for free from Work Place Learning Centre

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