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 is a philosophical tradition that began in the United States around 1870. Pragmatism rejects the idea that the function of thought is to describe, represent, or mirror reality. Instead, pragmatists consider thought an instrument or tool for prediction, problem solving and action.n the philosophy of science, instrumentalism is the view that concepts and theories are merely useful instruments and progress in science cannot be couched in terms of concepts and theories somehow mirroring reality.