Comment by taneq

> Sometimes that means working around processes and incentives in ways that look very strange from the outside.

At my last performance review, at my last job (this is going back more than a decade now) one of my agreed KPIs was to take the lead on a 3-6 month project, making all the required technical decisions etc. and successfully delivering it on time and on budget.

I never got the opportunity, and quit that job six months later to start my own business, but still did contract work for them.

Got a social call a year later from my old boss (who also left, before I did) and got to tell them “so I hit my KPI, you’ll never believe what I had to do to make it happen…” :D