Lorin Hochstein Feb 16

Whenever the topic of OKRs comes up, I think about Drucker vs Deming. Not a particularly topical thing to write about, but I think it's evergreen.

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/02/16/poor-deming-never-stood-a-chance/

Poor Deming never stood a chance

This post is an elaboration of a shorter post I wrote about five years ago. The two management giants of the mid-twentieth century were Peter Drucker and W. Edwards Deming. Ironically, while Drucke…

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@norootcause “But sometimes the right thing to do is the harder one, and nothing can be done about that.”

I'm feeling this so much right now! Not in a management context, but trying to make improvements to a software system. The team has been mainly dealing with symptoms before, but it will take structural changes to really improve things. Getting those done will be a hard piece of work.

#softwaredevelopment #softwareengineering #softwarearchitecture

Feb 19 at 6:24amWeb