People can read their manager's mind
tl;dr what managers say and what they reward can be different - what they reward is what gets done.  Even if that&#x27;s to the detriment of all.  There are no clever hacks, just better managers.<p>Actually I think there are clever hacks - measure what you want, publish it.  Preferably measure outcomes and processes (number of outages, linting scores of code base)