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Quotes from This quote about the McNamara fallacy appears in The Empty Raincoat — Charles Handy

1932–2024 Ireland

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The first step is to measure whatever can easily be measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.

Misattributed This quote about the McNamara fallacy appears in The Empty Raincoat (1994)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Charles Handy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.