Performance gap analysis, often shortened to gap analysis, examines particular aspects of business for problems and suggests solutions for these problems. It is a diagnosis-oriented analysis that pinpoints where an organization or individual is NOT doing what needs to be done by comparing current conditions ...
Continue reading... The opposite of idealistic is pragmatic, a word that describes a philosophy of doing what works best.. From Greek pragma deed, the word has historically described philosophers and politicians who were concerned more with real-world application of ideas than with abstract notions.
Pragmatism was a philosophical tradition that originated in the United States around 1870. The most important of the âclassical pragmatistsâ were Charles Sanders Peirce (1839â1914), William James (1842â1910) and John Dewey (1859â1952).. âPragmatismâ and pragmatism. When William James published a series of lectures on âPragmatism: A New Name for an Old way of Thinkingâ in 1907, he began by identifying âThe Present Dilemma in Philosophyâ (1907: 9ff), a fundamental and apparently irresoluble clash between two ways of thinking about things.