I don’t know of any good resources to point you at, but I’ll add this comment about how I see this as it exists in the EA community.
EA has a tendency to focus on outcomes. This makes sense given the philosophy of EA, and especially makes sense when you look at the state of charitable giving outside EA, where just paying serious attention to outcomes at all would be a major change (in the sense of focusing on things like ROI, impact, effectiveness and efficiency, etc.).
But as always when you set a direction, it can easily overshoot and land you with more of what you wanted than you want, i.e. too much focus on outcomes and not enough on process. So I think EA actively has to work to make sure it doesn’t forget about balancing process with outcomes given the outcome-focused outlook of the movement. So far I think folks have done a good job of this (at least in the last few years, maybe less so in the early days), but I also feel a regular pressure when speaking with EAs to need to continually seek the balance rather than letting outcomes overtake process focus.
I don’t know of any good resources to point you at, but I’ll add this comment about how I see this as it exists in the EA community.
EA has a tendency to focus on outcomes. This makes sense given the philosophy of EA, and especially makes sense when you look at the state of charitable giving outside EA, where just paying serious attention to outcomes at all would be a major change (in the sense of focusing on things like ROI, impact, effectiveness and efficiency, etc.).
But as always when you set a direction, it can easily overshoot and land you with more of what you wanted than you want, i.e. too much focus on outcomes and not enough on process. So I think EA actively has to work to make sure it doesn’t forget about balancing process with outcomes given the outcome-focused outlook of the movement. So far I think folks have done a good job of this (at least in the last few years, maybe less so in the early days), but I also feel a regular pressure when speaking with EAs to need to continually seek the balance rather than letting outcomes overtake process focus.