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> In my experience the fastest way to kill productivity is to measure it incorrectly & incentivize bad behavior chasing the wrong thing.

In my experience this is almost always a management driven attempt to turn 1x engineers into 1.2x engineers.

Can you provide some examples where this is the norm in a company culture which focuses on building and enabling high performers?



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