GOALS.1:8 - Common Anti-Patterns and How to Avoid Them

Treating a means as the goal: return to the recipient result when a proposed installation, meeting or task can finish without supplying it. Retain the means when it helps obtain that result.

Changing the kind after seeing the outcome: preserve what was originally promised, then make a prospective revision through the relevant agreement. Honest uncertainty at the outset enables inquiry; retrospective relabelling conceals performance.