A maturity model may provide, for example, a place to start, the benefit of a community ’ s prior experiences, a common language and a shared vision, a framework for prioritizing actions, a way to define what improvement means for your organization.

He shared Tom Wintringham's socialist vision for the Home Guard as a revolutionary People's Militia.

In contrast, leaders undertake the tasks of setting a direction or vision, aligning people to shared goals, communicating, and motivating.

His vision was not shared by his superiors, and eventually he could not fully develop his vision.

Because a modeling language is visual and at a higher-level of abstraction than code, using models encourages the generation of a shared vision that may prevent problems of differing interpretation later in development.

Rickover's vision was not initially shared by his immediate superiors: he was recalled from Oak Ridge, and assigned " advisory duties " with an office in an abandoned ladies room in the Navy Building.

Some Native American tribes used vision quests as a rite of passage, fasting and praying until an anticipated guiding dream was received, to be shared with the rest of the tribe upon their return.

Because Gilbert and Sullivan shared his vision of increasing the quality and respectability of English musical theatre, and so broadening its audience through the promotion of well-crafted English light operas, Carte gave them wider authority as director and music director than was customary at that time.

MSI's Board of Directors selected Waldemar Kaempffert, then the science editor of The New York Times, because he shared Rosenwald's vision.

The People's Temple of Christ was regarded by members of the Guyanese government as a model agricultural community that shared its vision of settling the hinterland and its view of cooperative socialism.

Though he shared with these authors a " similar desperate vision of human existence ," these new absurdist theatres ' pursuit of alternative dramaturgies made Anouilh's semi-realistic plays seem dull and old-fashioned.

Nonetheless, this small, rural community quietly shares a heritage of a community that can accomplish great things with shared vision.

Furthermore, this embodied example of people working together with shared vision in a labor of love made an impact on the wider community in Royal.

Hearkening back to the example of the members of St. John ’ s, the wider community came together around the shared vision of a community of people living together.

Lansky shared with them his vision of a new Havana, profitable for those willing to invest the right sum of money.

This is presented as a shared spiritual vision, a confirmation of their " Fourth World " belief, that informs the girls ' predominant reality and affects their perception of events in the everyday world.

According to Principia Discordia, it was around this time that he and Greg Hill — alias Malaclypse the Younger or Mal-2 — shared their first Eristic vision in a bowling alley in their hometown of Whittier, California.

In order to make a cultural change effective a clear vision of the firm ’ s new strategy, shared values and behaviors is needed.

Weir also shared this vision, feeling that Niccol's script was too dark, and declaring " where he had it depressing, I could make it light.

On October 25, 2008, however, Schuller removed his son from that position citing " a lack of shared vision ".

A number of utopian social movements throughout history have shared a vision of free love.

While vocalist Ian Anderson's creative vision largely shaped Jethro Tull's later albums, on This Was Anderson shared songwriting duties with Tull's guitarist Mick Abrahams.

According to some, Italian journalist Tiziano Terzani and Ryszard Kapuściński shared a similar vision of journalism.

Hatfield and Strohm shared songwriting credits and often sang together in harmony or octaves, creating a memorable " boy-girl " sound rarely encountered in rock ( except in the work of X and a few later indie bands such as Velocity Girl, Hazel, Quasi, Low, Mates of State, and Rainer Maria ).

Others, notably former State Secretary Prince Bernard von Bülow, shared Neurath's contempt: " Bülow could not regard as a serious competitor a man who had no formal training in diplomacy, who could not write a report in correct German, who did not listen carefully enough to the remarks of foreign statesmen to interpret them correctly, and who insisted upon seeing possibilities of alliance Britain where none existed ".

Within the armed forces, establishing the Bolivarian Militia, as a special, organized by the Venezuelan State to realize the principle of shared responsibility and has as main objective, to interact with society as a whole, for the implementation of the overall defense of the Nation.

The authoritarian King Carol II abdicated in 1940, succeeded by the National Legionary State, in which power was shared by Ion Antonescu and the Iron Guard.

In the Eastern Han era he was chiefly a civil official who shared many of the same censorial powers as the other two Councillors of State.

In reality, however, Walpole shared power with his brother-in-law Lord Townshend, who served as Secretary of State for the Northern Department and controlled the nation's foreign affairs.

Due to his two presidential nominations and previous United Nations experience, Stevenson perceived himself an elder statesman and a natural choice for United States Secretary of State, an opinion shared by few in the Kennedy camp.

The Confederate Congress shared quarters with the Virginia General Assembly in the Virginia State Capitol, with the Confederacy's executive mansion, the " White House of the Confederacy ", located two blocks away.

Canada was one of the 33 countries ( including only four Commonwealth members ) that voted in favour of the 1947 UN partition resolution that lead to the creation of the State of Israel, thus beginning a longstanding relationship with the Jewish state based on a shared commitment to democratic values, understanding, and mutual respect.

We know the appearance of the later State Crown of Henry VII, which shared their fate, as it is depicted in some of the portraits of Charles I by Daniel Mytens and Van Dyck.

The Morgan State University Choir has shared its musical gifts on many grand stages all over the world -– with numerous dignitaries and celebrated performers -– making them cultural ambassadors for Morgan State University, the city of Baltimore, and the state of Maryland.

A vast area of land shared by Freetown and Fall River makes up the Freetown-Fall River State Forest.

There are four public beaches in the town: Eastville Beach, facing Vineyard Haven Harbor and adjacent to the entrance to Lagoon Pond ; Oak Bluffs Town Beach, bordering Nantucket Sound just south of the Steamship Authority Pier ; Hart Haven Beach, further to the south ; and Joseph Sylvia State Beach, a barrier beach ( shared by Oak Bluffs and Edgartown that separates Sengekontacket Pond from Nantucket Sound.

The east town line is shared with the Town of Clarkson in Monroe County, marked by New York State Route 272.

Belle Terre is known for a law that evicted students from a nearby university campus, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, who were leasing shared housing in the village.

It is believed to be the only shared building in the State of Ohio to house a City Police Department and a Township Fire Department ..

* Winning Percentage ( 1. 000 ) Nebraska, 2000 ( 34-0 ), shared with Long Beach State and Southern California

As an advocate of a free and united Germany, Arnold Ruge shared Hegel's belief that history is a progressive advance towards the realization of freedom, and that freedom is attained in the State, the creation of the rational General Will.

' This view was not shared by the jury, which, after three days ’ hearing, acquitted Lilburne — who had defended himself as skilfully as any lawyer could have done — to the great horror of the Judges and the chagrin of the majority of the Council of State.

On 6 June 1809, a new constitution was adopted, and while the king still appointed the members of the council, now called " Statsrådet " ( the Council of State ), the legislative powers of government were once again shared with the Estates.

In spite of the claim-free history, State Farm dropped them as customers, and shared information on their water damage with ChoicePoint's CLUE database.

* Reliability and State management: IKEv2 uses sequence numbers and acknowledgments to provide reliability and mandates some error processing logistics and shared state management.