Progress can only be determined or measured using goals and
values. If you don't have a goal to move towards, it is just random movement.
If you don't have values to measure (or more often merely quantify) change, it
is just random change.
More often than not, values and goals are defined very
narrowly and not put into a wider context. Values are numbers that have been
narrowly defined by isolating specific things from as much as possible. The
best example is dollar amounts, especially as profit.
There is often little open debate or explanation of the
values: how they are set, what they mean, how they connect to other things,
etc. They are usually numbers these days and are passed off as being obvious
and self-evident.
The narrowness and lack of transparency and
details about them are big reasons why what is defined as progress by some is
felt by others to be degeneration or even outright loss. 
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