Evidence Over Attestation
“None of it is slow. All of it is efficient. Almost none of it is effective.”
Effectiveness, in Drucker's sense, means doing the right things, and it is the one measure most agentic work never gets held to.
More lines from the same part
- “Speed multiplies the wrong problem as faithfully as the right one.”
- “It does not matter how fast you do the wrong thing.”
- “Effectiveness first, then speed. The other order is how a company ships faster than it ever has and loses the customer anyway.”
- “Drucker said there is nothing so useless as doing efficiently what should not be done at all. Agents have made that the default failure mode of the era.”