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good analogy!

obviously the solution is what organized crime came up with. tie performance to heartbeat of loved ones.

for accountability to work it needs motivationability

important to know whether the job is impossible or not, because if it is you will only ever get desperate unlucky less-than-useful idiots.

and also very big issue is the strength of the causal relationship between quarterly earnings and "job performance" ... hiring miracle workers, like GE did, who will massage the numbers, whatever it takes, will look nice initially, but then the long winter sets in and it turns out it was all theater. (that's when the mob connections come in handy, for exercising that accountability ... and of course these bonus clawbacks are happening, but probably due to the aforementioned causal inference problem they don't do much)



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