[Verse 1] Before you tear the system down, you've got to know the ground So Doerr's "Measure What Matters" is where wisdom can be found Learn the canonical model, see how OKRs were born Understanding what exists before you sound the reform horn [Chorus] Six books to build your knowledge base Scott and Doerr will set the pace Marquet turns ships, Hastings breaks chains McChrystal's teams, Muller explains Read them all to see the cracks Between the theory and the facts [Verse 2] James Scott in "Seeing Like a State" reveals the planners' curse How legibility destroys what makes complex systems work High-modernist schemes that look so clean on paper maps Create the very chaos that they promised to collapse [Chorus] Six books to build your knowledge base Scott and Doerr will set the pace Marquet turns ships, Hastings breaks chains McChrystal's teams, Muller explains Read them all to see the cracks Between the theory and the facts [Verse 3] "Turn the Ship Around!" shows Marquet's submarine command From leader-follower to leader-leader, taking a stand Autonomy in action when you push decisions down The nuclear navy proves that hierarchy can come around [Bridge] Netflix says "Context not control" in Hastings' rulebook tale While Muller warns that metric gods will make your culture fail These authors paint a clearer view of where the problems hide When measurement becomes the master instead of the guide [Verse 4] McChrystal's "Team of Teams" transformed the military machine Decentralized decisions in the most rigid system seen While Muller's "Tyranny" dissects the metric fixation trap These six perspectives help you bridge the implementation gap [Chorus] Six books to build your knowledge base Scott and Doerr will set the pace Marquet turns ships, Hastings breaks chains McChrystal's teams, Muller explains Read them all to see the cracks Between the theory and the facts [Outro] Foundation built on solid ground Critique with wisdom, safe and sound
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