Goals laudable

Modem organizations use teams quite liberally, and their advantages are significant the pursuit of improved teamwork is a laudable organizational goal. Nonetheless, all work in groups and teams must face up to a simple fact ... 

Regardless of one s accomplishments or the recognition one receives for such laudable programs and activities, professional excellence ultimately implies more. I believe such accomplishments, while recognized as milestones of excellence, are only byproducts of the consistent day-to-day journey toward such worthy goals. In other words, professional excellence is more than any destination or achievement, it includes the journey itself. 1... 

Australia. A common feature of these polymer colloids research groups is that they were created through a desire to enhance research activity in recognition of the importance of the polymer colloids industry and have subsequently been sustained in part by financial support from both the local and world-wide polymer colloids industry. An initiative of this kind is desired by the UK polymer colloids industry, as voiced through the various meetings of the UK Polymer Colloids Forum, and without doubt would lead to major advances in fundamental polymer colloids research that would service the needs of the polymer colloids industry. This remains a laudable goal for the UK, but cannot be achieved without real commitment from the academics, the industry and the research councils. 

Focusing on a laudable goal for all (i.e., improving public safety),... 

Complete and total remediation of all existing groundwater, although a laudable goal, is not realistic. This is due to the enormity of the problem, the limited resources available for the task, and in many Instances, the absence of suitable and reliable technology to treat the problem to the extent specified by existing regulations. 

The favorite endpoint of the process chemist is to dry to constant weight, but this laudable goal can lead to the production of a desol-... 

The Confederation Assembly had demonstrated a laudable goal in trying to stop the spread of the possessed, no one disputed that. However, the new colony planets and smaller asteroids suffered disproportionately from the lack of scheduled flights they needed imported high-technology products to maintain their economies. Asteroid... 

But, in reality, we safety professionals are also risk takers. It is not possible to attain a risk-free environment, even in the most desirable situations. Setting a goal to achieve zero risk may seem laudable, but it requires chasing a myth. We must understand that even after the best practical methods are applied to what we propose, there will always be residual risk. And we are participants in accepting those risks. 

Ergonomics developed out of the need to make work less stressful and more comfortable. And these are laudable goals that can be more effectively achieved if managements understand that the application of ergonomics principles also serves their productivity and cost efficiency goals. Case histories are now prevalent describing ergonomics applications that were initiated to resolve injury and illness problems and also achieved improvements in productivity and cost efficiency. 

Setting a goal to achieve a zero risk environment may seem laudable, but doing so requires chasing a myth. 

The F.A.A. announced a goal of zero accidents early last year. This, of course, sounds like a laudable goal. Perhaps it is just meant to reassure a worried public, for almost no one—least of all the investigators at the Major Investigations Division of the (National Transportation) Safety Board—believes that such a goal is attainable. 

Note the phrase reduce the risk. This question logically follows. What risk reduction level is to be achieved Safety and health professionals understand that setting a goal to achieve a zero risk level may seem laudable, but doing so results in chasing a myth. No facility, thing or activity is risk-free. 

While self-employment and endepreneurship are laudable goals, the ambience is unsuitable for promoting them. 

When an organization reaches its limits, risks escalate, problems and errors keep emerging, solutions become ineffective or they lag, and threats grow more ominous. Individuals are more likely to err and their errors are more likely to go undetected and uncorrected. Such problems may not be blatant and obvious they can manifest themselves in inefficiency, deviations from expected performance, and dysfunctional outcomes such as fraud, unethical acts, and employee burnout. NASA shows how talented and intelligent people with plentiful resources and laudable goals can find themselves in trouble when their organization reaches or exceeds the limits of organizing. 

In conclusion, while techniques for the prediction of low-resolution structures have improved, they still have a way to go before structure prediction becomes routine. Nevertheless, this is a very laudable goal because low-resolution structures are of considerable utility both in the identification of biochemical function and in ligand docking. Such efforts will have to be applied on a genomic scale if structure-based approaches to function prediction are to play a role in the post genomic era. A number of such efforts are underway, and doubtless there will be more in the future. 

Armed with a new research infrastructure, it is not too ambitious to aim to discover and describe most, say 80 per cent, of Earth s species within an intense period of planetary exploration, say 50 years. Such a 50-year inventory would not be an end, but a beginning - an effort to triage evidence of as many species, clades and components of ecosystems as possible for the benefit of scientists, including taxonomists, of tomorrow. Even if aU species could be documented, an unrealistic but laudable goal, the need to sample and collect reanalyze apply new theories, methods and tools and test and refine taxonomic concepts and Linnaean names and classifications would continue indefinitely. 

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