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Record W232915338

Leaps in Performance: Botswana’s Transformation Story

2008· article· en· W232915338 on OpenAlexaff
Marvin Washington, Stephen K. Hacker

Bibliographic record

VenueSSRN Electronic Journal · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicOrganizational Change and Leadership
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTransformational leadershipDysfunctional familyTransparency (behavior)Public serviceLiteracyPublic relationsLEAPSCorporate governancePolitical scienceEconomic growthDevelopment economicsBusinessManagementPsychologyEconomicsLaw
DOInot available

Abstract

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Capturing the promise of development, Botswana has demonstrated enormous fruits from applying transformational science. Leveraging the knowledge of breakthrough results creation (transformational science), public service leadership has broken with the dysfunctional patterns of many developing countries. Botswana is now ranked Africa’s #1 county for transparency and absence of economic crime, #1 in annual GDP growth over the past decade, best credit risk in Africa, growth to a 80% literacy rate, and a sought out resource for other African countries to see first hand how to create good governance. And the success story continues. New challenges are being met with increased leadership consciousness and drive for results. The authors examine the path and lessons learned from this uplifting example of development. In particular, the stubbles of recent past cause by an over reliance on public service programs are reviewed, and the beneficial movement to enhance the areas of personal mastery, interpersonal mastery and enterprise mastery.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.312
Threshold uncertainty score0.443

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.002
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.200
Teacher spread0.177 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2008
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