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	Podcast:		Biweekly
	Episode:		56: Spreadsheet mentality
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:54:41
	Publish Date:		2025-04-21 21:03:46
	Description:		Watch this episode on YouTube. Dima and Slava discuss the spreadsheet mentality and the general difficulties of making data-driven decisions while not loosing the forest for the trees. Theme corner: Dima's season of decoupling Spreadsheet mentality (sometimes called "spreadsheet thinking") refers to an overly mechanistic or reductionist approach to decision-making and management that relies too heavily on quantitative metrics while ignoring qualitative factors and nuance. Improving a number while loosing track of why we started this in the first place. Measure = quantify, at least for the purposes of this discussion Cult of data-driven decisions Biweekly 52: Needs Analysis The “Traffic Light” Approach to Problem Solving Quotes on the topic "What gets measured, gets managed.” – attributed to Peter Drucker or W. Edwards Deming "Without data, you're just another person with an opinion." – W. Edwards Deming "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” – Goodheart’s Law “Tell me how you will measure me, and then I will tell you how I will behave. If you measure me in an illogical way, don’t complain about illogical behaviour.” – Eliyahu Goldratt
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