What you are describing is mostly related to practice of building organizational units focused purely on implementation, and nothing else. Your personal success in such a unit depends heavily on a number of successful implementations under your belt.
The more organization separates project implementation from the goal-setting and strategic work, the less reasons are there for people responsible for implementation to focus on something different than just getting another green checkmark on that project milestone (and getting recognized as the one who was most impactful in getting there).
Sustainability, recognition of actual business value, meaningful team work — all of these quickly go out the window as people focus on gaming the only metric they’ve been assigned.
The more organization separates project implementation from the goal-setting and strategic work, the less reasons are there for people responsible for implementation to focus on something different than just getting another green checkmark on that project milestone (and getting recognized as the one who was most impactful in getting there).
Sustainability, recognition of actual business value, meaningful team work — all of these quickly go out the window as people focus on gaming the only metric they’ve been assigned.