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Goodhart’s Law: When a target becomes its own enemy

Idea to Value

Goodhart’s Law is named after economist Charles Goodhart, who in an 1975 essay about Monetary policy noticed that “ Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes. In 2015, Google used machine learning to let Google Photos tag faces of friends in uploaded photos.

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Workplace Culture: Productive People Make High-performing Teams That Produce Rapid Results

Innovation Excellence

According to Global Human Capital Trends 2015 pg 36, “Organizations that create a culture defined by meaningful work, deep employee engagement, job and organizational fit, and strong leadership are outperforming their peers and will likely beat their competition in attracting top talent.”.

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The energy transition we are undertaking

Paul Hobcraft

The agreement’s language was negotiated by representatives of 196 state parties at the 21st Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC in Le Bourget , near Paris , France , and adopted by consensus on 12 December 2015. [4] We lack leadership here. We need inspirational leadership.

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SDG: Meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals

mjvinnovation

The 193 UN member states pledged to adopt the so-called Post-2015 Agenda, considered one of the most ambitious in the history of international diplomacy. The request for the incorporation of climate change measures into national policies, strategies, and plans cannot be ignored. Our current moment – ??That

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Ultra Innovation

Norbert Bol

In the December edition of Research Policy there is an interesting article by Tavassoli & Karlsson (2015) about the persistence of innovation. The research of Tavassoli & Karlsson (2015) shows that innovation is persistent. Research Policy, 1887–1901. Norbert Bol. Literature. Tavassoli, S., & Karlsson, C.

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3 of the Best Innovation Team Formulas…and When to Ignore Them

Qmarkets

Because it allows its leadership to adopt a hands-off approach to innovation process. The logic behind this approach was eloquently articulated in a 2015 article on Google. Previously , I proposed two such corporate policies. Even some innovation experts claim that “ innovation is everyone’s job.”

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3 of the Best Innovation Team Formulas…and When to Ignore Them

Qmarkets

Because it allows its leadership to adopt a hands-off approach to innovation process. The logic behind this approach was eloquently articulated in a 2015 article on Google. Previously , I proposed two such corporate policies. Even some innovation experts claim that “ innovation is everyone’s job.”