> If a company is so broken that promotions are decided based on factually incorrect information, there's nothing to do other than escape to a different company.
To me, this means that every traditionally run company (top-down) must be broken by construction. And indeed, I have never seen or heard of truly fact-based management.
The entire challenge with multi-level management is that you always play a long game of telephone with increasingly less technical people, which are unable (due to lack of time and understanding) to grasp the ground-truth facts without simplification. Thus, management based on hard facts is impossible in this setting, though it is a great theoretical ideal many aspire to.
In practice, doing so is very hard and people are lazy, so the "facts" can become so twisted as to be entirely unrecognizable.
To me, this means that every traditionally run company (top-down) must be broken by construction. And indeed, I have never seen or heard of truly fact-based management.
The entire challenge with multi-level management is that you always play a long game of telephone with increasingly less technical people, which are unable (due to lack of time and understanding) to grasp the ground-truth facts without simplification. Thus, management based on hard facts is impossible in this setting, though it is a great theoretical ideal many aspire to.
In practice, doing so is very hard and people are lazy, so the "facts" can become so twisted as to be entirely unrecognizable.