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Goodhart's law is an adage often stated as, "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure". [1] It is named after British economist Charles Goodhart, who is credited with expressing the core idea of the adage in a 1975 article on monetary policy in the United Kingdom: [2]
The strategy for goal setting begins with the big picture; taking a look at the big picture before breaking it into smaller components allows one to focus on the primary goal. Once the main goal is set, breaking it up into smaller, more achievable components helps in the planning portion of setting the goal. [ 49 ]
A top-down approach (also known as stepwise design and stepwise refinement and in some cases used as a synonym of decomposition) is essentially the breaking down of a system to gain insight into its compositional subsystems in a reverse engineering fashion. In a top-down approach an overview of the system is formulated, specifying, but not ...
Scientists expected the emergence of La Niña - a climate pattern of cooling conditions in the tropical Pacific - would slow down record-breaking global warming after the recent El Niño ...
First, Break All the Rules, subtitled What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently (1999) is a self-help book authored by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman about improving employee satisfaction. The book appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for 93 weeks. [1]
It's helpful to break down the task of decluttering into smaller, more manageable components – the first of which is establishing categories to place your items.
Higher inventory could make builders reluctant to break ground on new housing projects. At December's sales pace it would take 8.5 months to clear the supply of houses on the market, down from 8.7 ...
Example from MIL-HDBK-881, which illustrates the first three levels of a typical aircraft system [1]. A work-breakdown structure (WBS) [2] in project management and systems engineering is a breakdown of a project into smaller components.