Comments on: Targets in public services do more harm than good http://www.owen.org/blog/1137 Thoughts on development and beyond Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:50:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Owen http://www.owen.org/blog/1137/comment-page-1#comment-842 Owen Tue, 21 Sep 2004 05:26:40 +0000 http://www.owen.org/blog/?p=11#comment-842 Nigel - do you have any evidence for the idea that targets provide focus and ambition? I've never met anyone in the public service who admits to being motivated by targets. Owen Nigel – do you have any evidence for the idea that targets provide focus and ambition? I’ve never met anyone in the public service who admits to being motivated by targets.

Owen

]]> By: nigel http://www.owen.org/blog/1137/comment-page-1#comment-841 nigel Sat, 31 Jul 2004 03:58:44 +0000 http://www.owen.org/blog/?p=11#comment-841 Hang on a second. Don't targets provide focus and ambition? Shouldn't those of us who aspire to better public services for all our citizens have something to aim at, especially when you can't rely on the market to get an optimal allocation? Hang on a second. Don’t targets provide focus and ambition? Shouldn’t those of us who aspire to better public services for all our citizens have something to aim at, especially when you can’t rely on the market to get an optimal allocation?

]]> By: Brian Barder http://www.owen.org/blog/1137/comment-page-1#comment-840 Brian Barder Mon, 10 May 2004 07:34:46 +0000 http://www.owen.org/blog/?p=11#comment-840 Bravo! Down with targets. Ditto with Performance Indicators, Personal Objectives, Bonuses, Achievement Ratings, and all the rest of that tired old discredited stuff, indiscriminately lifted from private sector managementspeak that went out of fashion a decade or two ago. Power to your pen. BLB, 10 May 04 Bravo! Down with targets. Ditto with Performance Indicators, Personal Objectives, Bonuses, Achievement Ratings, and all the rest of that tired old discredited stuff, indiscriminately lifted from private sector managementspeak that went out of fashion a decade or two ago. Power to your pen.

BLB, 10 May 04

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