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  2. Discovery-driven planning - Wikipedia

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    With conventional planning, it is considered appropriate to fund the entire project, as the expectation is that one can predict a positive outcome. In discovery-driven planning, funds are released based on the accomplishment of key milestones or checkpoints, at which point additional funding can be made available predicated on reasonable ...

  3. Project management triangle - Wikipedia

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    Bannerman (2008) proposed the multilevel project success framework which comprises five L Levels of project success i.e. team, project management, deliverable, business and strategic. [13] The UNDP in 2012 proposed the results framework which has six stages of project success i.e. input, process, output, outcome and impact. [14]

  4. Katz v. United States - Wikipedia

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    [3] The reasonable expectation of privacy standard, now known as the Katz test, was formulated in a concurring opinion by Justice John Marshall Harlan II. [ 4 ] The Katz test has since been used in numerous cases, particularly because of technological advances that create new questions about privacy norms and government surveillance of personal ...

  5. Expectancy-value theory - Wikipedia

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    According to expectancy–value theory, students' achievement and achievement related choices are most proximally determined by two factors: [1] expectancies for success, and subjective task values. Expectancies refer to how confident an individual is in his or her ability to succeed in a task whereas task values refer to how important, useful ...

  6. Pygmalion effect - Wikipedia

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    The Pygmalion effect is a psychological phenomenon in which high expectations lead to improved performance in a given area and low expectations lead to worse performance. [1] It is named after the Greek myth of Pygmalion, the sculptor who fell so much in love with the perfectly beautiful statue he created that the statue came to life.

  7. Need for achievement - Wikipedia

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    A 1982 study conducted by McClellan and coauthors found that high need for achievement (N-Ach) was linked to success in lower-level management roles, in which promotions were influenced by individual contributions. At higher management levels where promotions were based on demonstrated leadership ability, high N-Ach was not associated with success.

  8. Optimism - Wikipedia

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    Half a glass of water, illustration of two different mental attitudes, optimism (half full) and pessimism (half empty). Optimism is the attitude or mindset of expecting events to lead to particularly positive, favorable, desirable, and hopeful outcomes.

  9. Instrumental and value-rational action - Wikipedia

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    By contrast, I shall speak of communicative action whenever the actions of the agents involved are coordinated not through egocentric [instrumental] calculations of success but through [value-rational] acts of reaching understanding. In communicative action participants are not primarily oriented to their own individual successes; they pursue ...