PROBABLY: If Legal Education Embraced Pay Transparency, Would Law Professors Emulate Hockey Players And Focus More On Scholarship And Less On Students? “It’s not hard to see how those findings generalize to any business. When people feel undervalued, they prioritize the flashier parts of their jobs that are easier to measure, even at the risk of costing their organizations. This behavioral change reflects a deeply human impulse. We want to be paid well, but we really want to be paid well relative to others. We care less about what we make than what we make in the context of our peers.”

One of Rumsfeld’s Rules is that whatever you measure will improve, so it’s important to measure the right things.