Goodhart's Law

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Category: Strategy

Foundational Lexicongaming the metric
Executive Parlancemeasurement corruption
Scholarly Discoursetarget-measure divergence
Babel ZenithGoodhart's Law
Origin: Charles Goodhart

Etymology & Meaning

When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

In the Boardroom

Employees optimizing for metrics at the expense of real outcomes.

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