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What (who) is Parkinson"s law - definition
ADAGE THAT WHEN A MEASURE BECOMES A TARGET, IT CEASES TO BE A GOOD MEASURE
Goodharts law; Goodhart's Law; Goodhart s law; Goodhart s Law
Siobhán Parkinson
IRISH WRITER
Siobhan Parkinson
Siobhán Parkinson (born 23 November 1954) is an Irish writer. She writes for both children and adults and was made Laureate na nÓg in 2010.
Parkinson's law
ADAGE THAT WORK EXPANDS TO FILL THE TIME AVAILABLE
Parkinson Law; Parkinsons law; Parkinsons Law; Parkinson s Law; Coefficient of inefficiency; Coefficient of Inefficiency; Parkinson's Law or The Pursuit of Progress; Parkinson s law; Parkinson's second law; Parkinson's Law
¦ noun the notion that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
Origin
1950s: named after the English writer Cyril Northcote Parkinson.
Parkinson's law
ADAGE THAT WORK EXPANDS TO FILL THE TIME AVAILABLE
Parkinson Law; Parkinsons law; Parkinsons Law; Parkinson s Law; Coefficient of inefficiency; Coefficient of Inefficiency; Parkinson's Law or The Pursuit of Progress; Parkinson s law; Parkinson's second law; Parkinson's Law
Parkinson's law is the adage that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." It is sometimes applied to the growth of bureaucracy in an organization, but can be applicable to all forms of work.
Wikipedia
Goodhart's law
Goodhart's law is an adage often stated as, "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure". It is named after British economist Charles Goodhart, who is credited with expressing the core idea of the adage in a 1975 article on monetary policy in the United Kingdom:
Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes.
It was used to criticize the British Thatcher government for trying to conduct monetary policy on the basis of targets for broad and narrow money, but the law reflects a much more general phenomenon.
