Re: TARGET SETTING

[John Hunter <managementimprovement@gmail.com>]

For those people that support PM Blair you could point them here:

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/frontpage/4495865.stm

"Tony Blair says he will ensure NHS targets do not stop people from
seeing their GPs when they want to."  Watching the video on the site
you get a clear understanding of people having problems with targets,
however a sensible person might just say that in such a case people
are just misusing targets (and if they used them properly the problem
would not appear).  That is one of the problems of trying to use
examples to convince someone to change.

For those of you willing to read a bit of that philosophical garbage
you can see a post from my blog:

   http://evop.blogspot.com/2005/06/targets-distorting-system.html


    John Hunter
    www.johnhunter.com