Ultimately, the report concludes, success will take financial institutions, public agencies and civil society -- nationally and internationally -- working toward a shared goal of sustainable development.
Out of this apparent chaos, the authors conclude that success comes from the ability to embrace several related goals, even at the cost of refusing to focus on just one.
After interviewing 200 people worldwide "who have made a difference in their fields," three authors conclude that "success in the long run has less to do with finding the best idea or business model than it does with discovering what matters to us as individuals".
They conclude: "The success of the [UN climate summit in] Paris meeting, and of every future meeting, must be evaluated not only by levels of national commitments, but also by looking at how they will lead ultimately to the point when zero-carbon energy systems become the obvious choice for everyone".
Leaders are right to feel in their gut what the West grasps only superficially, that the crisis has hastened the "rise of the rest".But leaders are wrong when they conclude that success is based on some enlightened Asian political way.
It is thus not easy from the data to conclude about success factors in the programmes.
Despite huge sums of the money spent on drug research since the mid-1950s, DandNeedleman and Jan Brugues in their forum article conclude that success rates are not satisfactory and that the balance of financial input and progress in the development of new drugs is not evident.
Of course, we must not go overboard and mistakenly conclude that the successes of statistical NLP render linguistics irrelevant (rash statements to this effect have been made in the past, e.g., the notorious remark, "Every time I fire a linguist, my performance goes up").
After the meeting concluded without success, the Bush administration decided to proceed with the program anyway.
Uzzi and Spiro concluded, "The success of a musical production depends on the team, rather than individuals".
But baseball executives, as they chart out the sport's international expansion, have concluded that success will start with getting people to play the game.
