Mean Management

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"Just tell us…. is it two?"

• Our goal is 7 widgets per day

• We plan to launch 12 new products next year

• We'll need 73 new geologists in 1999

• Productivity is $1.5M in sales per employee

• We can strat 6 new toxicological studies per month

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This innate skill is manifest in our language, specifically for this conversation our language of management. Our conversations frequently collapse to a declaration of ‘mean’ objectives or intents. In fact we sometimes consider a statement about varianc

We seem to value ‘precision’ above ‘accuracy’ and most certainly spend much time confused about the difference.