Once upon a time, the only reason anyone used targets was for teaching the youngsters how to use a bow and arrow. As the years went by and we invented rifles, tanks and games consoles, the metaphor seeped into our consciousness and somehow spread into management training manuals.rnTwo recent articles in the same Sunday Times made me realise just how poorly our government understands complexity and complex systems. The first was about a government-commissioned report on the NHS, and described: "... a blind pursuit of political and managerial targets as the root cause of a string of hospital scandals that have cost thousands of lives".
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