This is a real dynamic that Conway will have to carefully design incentives around — one intermediate solution is to attribute reward and blame to actions instead of individuals. There can still be internal debate over whose responsibility the actions themselves were, which will likely continue to be political and outside of Conway’s scope. I think it’s reasonable to believe that companies will be penalized for unruly internal politics more now than ever before, but also to concede that some internal politics will probably always persist.
Oh, I think I read your post without understanding what “credit attribution” meant.
There are indeed two completely distinct problems of “evaluating decisions by attributing credit to them,” and “evaluating individuals by attributing credit to them.” I somehow assumed the latter interpretation when you were talking about the former the whole time. The words “credit” and “attribution” usually refer to individuals, and I also wasn’t reading closely.
This is a real dynamic that Conway will have to carefully design incentives around — one intermediate solution is to attribute reward and blame to actions instead of individuals. There can still be internal debate over whose responsibility the actions themselves were, which will likely continue to be political and outside of Conway’s scope. I think it’s reasonable to believe that companies will be penalized for unruly internal politics more now than ever before, but also to concede that some internal politics will probably always persist.
Oh, I think I read your post without understanding what “credit attribution” meant.
There are indeed two completely distinct problems of “evaluating decisions by attributing credit to them,” and “evaluating individuals by attributing credit to them.” I somehow assumed the latter interpretation when you were talking about the former the whole time. The words “credit” and “attribution” usually refer to individuals, and I also wasn’t reading closely.
Never mind.