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by neaanopri 594 days ago
There's only one metric that matters at the end of the day, and that's $. Revenue.

Unfortunately there's a lot of lag

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> Unfortunately there's a lot of lag

A great generalisation and understatement! Often looking like you are becoming more efficient is more important than actually being more efficient, e.g you need to impress investors. So you cut back on maintenance and other cost centres and the new management can blame you in 6 years time for it when you are far enough away from it to not hurt you.

s/Revenue/profit/g