Taylor Ricketts Quotes
We only value something when we measure it.
Taylor Ricketts, Economist & Environmentalist, Director, Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, Quoted in Time, February 21, 2011
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This quotation or parts of it are sometimes erroneously attributed to Albert Einstein.
See {611311} for a later similar view.
See {234968} for an earlier, similar view.
Managers and leaders always make comparisons in order to hire and promote staff and the like. What St, Teresa warns against is making comparisons when communicating with individuals or publicly as people tend to react badly to open comparisons where they do not come out as the best. These Maxims would be useful for any political campaign staff or government agency.
In governmental programs typically administrators, evaluators and often the media measure what is easiest to measure and use that to assess the benefit of the program or initiative. See {63458}.
