Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Are we all falling victim to Goodhardt’s Law?


“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”– Charles Goodhart

A bit of troubling retrospection -- we have all been setting goals for a long time, and many of them are measurement based. Personal satisfaction, balance, and even sustainability are the sorts of targets we should strive to attain; but as I review documents for companies, institutions, and individuals; Measures—performance measures more than anything else, dominate. Not IMHOP a formula for long term success.

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