Real-world case studies highlight how these barriers manifest themselves. In the financial services industry, the Wells Fargo sales scandal demonstrated the danger of focusing on narrow targets while neglecting broader performance, ethics management emphasized one metric (new accounts opened) to the exclusion of collective indicators like customer satisfaction or ethical compliance, resulting in massive misconduct [10]. This case is an example of a strategic and cultural lapse, leadership fixated on one aspect of performance and cultivated a fear driven sales culture, rather than measuring and rewarding holistic organizational health. The fallout forced the company to overhaul its performance management and rebuild trust. In manufacturing, companies adopting Lean, Six Sigma techniques found that involving employees in defining process metrics and focusing on a few critical indicators helped break down cultural resistance. Toyota’s famed continuous improvement system is a case where m...