Symbols matter – but the real targets matter more.
The system's reputation mattered more than individual patients; targets mattered more than people".
Instead, a minor operation may take priority, as headline waiting time targets matter more politically.
Decisions about which targets matter, he said, should be driven by human expertise, not by a database.
"Targets matter but not at any cost.
Still, Monday's EPA rules and targets matter a lot, and set a very sensible and constructive template for further actions.
The target matters less than current UK net government debt, which at 84% (on the IMF's count) is still precarious.
This target matters a great deal because, since the pound crashed out of the exchange rate mechanism (ERM) a generation ago, governments of both stripes have sought to steer the economy as a whole almost exclusively via control of the course of inflation.
Another interviewee told us that "the mind of those who control the target matters most, and this control right cannot be objectively valued given the preferences, contexts, and goals of stakeholders".
But for some, not only does the target matter, but the organization doing the targeting matters.
