Tell me how you measure me and I’ll tell you how I will behave. - Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Deciding that the company is wasting too much money on duplicated efforts and thus moving to a more centralized mode. Ten years later, we want to encourage entrepreneurship and we move back to decentralization.

We need financial measurements for sure — but we don’t need them for their own sake. We need them for two different reasons. One is control; knowing to what extent a company is achieving its goal of making money. The other reason is probably even more important; measurements should induce the parts to do what’s good for the organization as a whole.

Eli Goldratt passed away at his home in Israel on June 11th, 2011, in the company of his family and close friends.