When I was at Amazon, I suggested that promotion to L7 people manager should require that reverse tattooed on your forehead so that you saw it every day. Every time some mandate would come down from on high, it was clear that nobody had thought of the second order effects, malicious compliance, or just outright gaming.
Would that make chasing perverse outcomes in the corporate environment the Munger Games?
When I was at Amazon, I suggested that promotion to L7 people manager should require that reverse tattooed on your forehead so that you saw it every day. Every time some mandate would come down from on high, it was clear that nobody had thought of the second order effects, malicious compliance, or just outright gaming.
Goodhart's law
Akshually… I’d say they’re not the same but related. Goodhart’s is a corollary of Charlie Munger’s quote.