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Measure both process metrics (daily actions) and outcome

Measure both process metrics (daily actions) and outcome metrics (end results) in paired systems, using process metrics for real-time adjustment and outcome metrics for validating that process metrics remain predictive.

Why This Is a Principle

Derives from Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it (systems produce their results) and When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good (measures as targets cease being good measures). This is Grove's paired indicators principle — a meta-measurement strategy that prevents Goodhart's Law while maintaining actionability.

Source Lessons

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Leading indicators versus lagging indicators

The metrics that predict your future are different from the metrics that describe your past. Most people track the wrong ones — and by the time they notice, the future has already arrived.

Connections

Derived From (2)

AxiomWhen a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good AxiomEvery system is perfectly designed to get the results it

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