The IMF's warning was reinforced earlier in the day by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris which said it was imperative to restore budget discipline as rapidly as possible.
It is thus imperative that the two disciplines collaborate and learn from each other, not just in matters that pertain to the incarcerated population, but at all levels, with one aim in mind: promoting the health and safety of our communities.
Mutual respect for scientific disciplines is imperative though respectful debates are valuable.
The imperative for maintaining our fiscal discipline and not taking a risk of losing the current opportunity to retire the publicly held debt of the federal government is increased by the importance of putting the federal government in the best possible position to meet the Social Security and Medicare requirements of future generations, when the federal budget is projected to be in deficit again.
In outline, at least, it strikes a plausible balance between the dual imperatives of growth and fiscal discipline.
In the course of some twenty-five years of strategic planning work with business leaders, we've developed some practices and tools that, to use Drucker's term, can bring "discipline" to this important imperative.
These organizations aim towards progressive goals of poverty alleviation through holistic youth empowerment but encounter tensions between the imperatives of funders to distinguish (or discipline) youth in terms of performance and their own impulse to include all those in need.
Gaining a permanent majority supplanted budget discipline as his party's governing imperative.
It is also imperative to understand that early 'pioneers' in this discipline may not get it exactly right on the first attempt but by developing initial precedents and processes, these can be built upon in the future.
Moreover, retaining and producing more successful graduates in STEM disciplines represents an economic and strategic imperative shared across OECD member countries (OECD, 2012).
