Sentences with phrase «wrong metric»

In other words, politicians and the media focus on the wrong metrics — and even when different economic measurements get a little attention, we still don't get it right.
The wrong metrics indicate that marketing is doing something, but they also produce questions about whether those are the right things to be doing - and ultimately whether marketing is having any impact on the financial metrics the C - suite cares about.
With many companies turning to content to help build their brand, some entrepreneurs and CMOs are looking at the wrong metrics.
It seems like a silly question, but many people start their pay - per - click (PPC) campaign by emphasizing the wrong metrics.
Pressure to hit short - term earnings targets and executive compensation plans that incentivize the wrong metrics often push companies to buy back stock when it's most expensive and the capital could better be used elsewhere.
This new book states that honesty, integrity, and a commitment to environmental sustainability are important — but market share is often the wrong metric entirelythat long - term relationships are better than a one - time saleand that competitors can be among your best allies.
Other scientists have criticized the planetary boundaries as too generous (for example, allowing too much human appropriation of freshwater flows) or employing the wrong metric (atmospheric concentrations of CO2 rather than cumulative emissions of greenhouse gases).
Many times individuals are making great progress, they're just using the wrong metrics to measure it.
Speaking as someone who was recently «commoditized» by who I thought was a wonderful man I met on a dating site, I find that the types of people who use these services are looking at the wrong metrics when they seek out a prospective love interest.
«We are totally for accountability, but we've got the wrong metrics,» says John Bransford, a professor of education at Seattle's University of Washington who studies learning and designs assessments.
Reardon argues that states that rate and reward schools based on average test scores rather than the growth in scores are using the wrong metric.
No, I am saying that you chose the wrong metric to mean revert.
* Accounting issues: in one sense this takes the fourth point to an extreme - the stock market's valuation of a company is flawed, not because it's focusing on the wrong metrics but because profits or other key financial data are being flattered or even fabricated by company management.
Yes, the economics profession says the equity premium is higher, but they use a wrong metric; they should use dollar - weighted returns, not time - weighted returns.
If we have the wrong metrics, we will strive for the wrong things.»
This is exactly the kind of peril that results from a) reacting to the press release of a study without understanding its methodology (or the underlying science) and b) focusing improvement efforts on the wrong metrics.
All this excitement about temperature and it is the wrong metric.
Unfortunately, many attorneys are infatuated with the wrong metrics when it comes to their online marketing performance — usually the number of site visitors in a given time period.
Upon reading this I chuckled to myself because accuracy is probably the wrong metric for success.
Others have just enough information to waste their time chasing all the wrong metrics.
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