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. Pragmatism is a philosophical movement that includes those who claim that an ideology or proposition is true if it works satisfactorily, that the meaning of a proposition is to be found in the practical consequences of accepting it, and that unpractical ideas are to be rejected.he article's first section contains an outline of the history of pragmatism; the second, a selective survey of themes and theses of the pragmatists.