The transition from accountability to predictability was rather unmotivated. I guess accountability is a strategy of optimization. You want to identify when sufficient gains can be made by unilaterally adjusting the process of an individual or team or organizational unit, and reinforce that adjustment with reward/punishment ranging from feelings of usefulness to monetary reward to continued employment.

If you model your productivity as hierarchical composition of dynamical systems, then I guess predictability would be a rapid step response, unilaterally in each parameter, in each system. Losses in productivity could then be traced back each system and form a low-latency feedback loop.

This model is cold and calculating and probably wrong. I just want to try make it more concrete.