- According to Gary Wolf, "A fetish for numbers is the defining trait of the modern manager. Corporate executives facing down hostile shareholders load their pockets full of numbers. So do politicians on the hustings, doctors counseling patients and fans abusing their local sports franchise on talk radio."
What, if any, costs or drawbacks do you see with the quantification ethos in management? The gains are well known (including more precise pricing of players, clearer predictive judgments of value to teams, and more) but are there costs as well? Find scholarly or other well-thought out critical points of view on the quantificational approach to the management of human performance (in sport or not), and evaluate the claims made. The goal is to come to a reasoned position on the reduction of human performance to measurable categories.
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