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2001 Conference - Rotorua
  
No. 8: Commits to Long Term and
Continuous Community Dialogue, Planning, Action and Evaluation
"The best way to predict the future is to
create it"
(Peter Ellyard)
"Ideas won't keep. Something must be done
about them"
(Alfred North Whitehead)
"Sooner or later all thinking and planning has
to degenerate into work"
(Peter Drucker)
"A little know fact is that the Apollo Moon
missions were on course less than 1% of the time. The mission was
composed of almost constant mid course corrections. That's also true
of most business and community situations"
(James Belasco, Teaching the Elephant to Dance
Use of Appropriate Indicators to
Measure and Monitor Progress
"In the long run, what a community chooses to
measure, and how it is measured, has a tremendous impact on the
quality of life"
(North West Policy Center, Seattle, USA)
"Indicators should be easily understood,
reliable, easy/cost efficient to collect, indicative of quality and
quantity and relevant to strategic policy and funding
decisions"
(Jenny Wills)
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