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.
Pragmatics is a branch of linguistics concerned with the use of language in social contexts and the ways in which people produce and comprehend meanings through language. The term pragmatics was coined in the 1930s by the philosopher C.W. Morris. Pragmatics was developed as a subfield of linguistics in the 1970s.