Remember: very few people act with the intention to fail.
The Republican Party's disingenuous exploitation of identity politics explains why for the next few months you will see a lot of Dr Ben Carson and Carly Fiorinaandnd Marco Rubio), who yesterday announced his intention to fail to become President of the United States.
Asked if he would resign if he did not get the funding, the minister replied, "It's not my intention to fail".
As McCann (1998: 163) suggests, one might have such an intention but fail to carry it out.
The BJ's case, said FTC chair Deborah Platt Majoras, signalled the regulator's "intention to challenge companies that fail to protect adequately consumers' sensitive information"."Boards should pay as much attention to these IT operational risks as they do to other operational risks in the firm," argues George Westerman of the MIT Sloan School of Management.
However, in the field of health psychology, there is a phenomenon that some authors label the 'intention-behavior gap' wherein people having the intention to adopt a behavior fail to act on their positive intentions for various reasons (e.g., forgetfulness, lack of time, etc).
Of 31 patients who received intramuscular meglumine antimoniate (20 mg Sb5/kg body weight daily for 14 days) 25 were cured (83.3% on a per protocol basis, 80.6% on intention to treat basis), five failed (16.1%) and one was lost (3.2%) at 3-month follow-up.
In contrast, trials comparing rhythm and rate control strategies on an intention to treat basis have failed to show any benefits of a rhythm control strategy in the patient's HRQoL.
We further suggest that archaeologists sometimes stumble over the idea of intention because they fail to see the larger management system embedded within the physical remains associated with the archaeological record.
In these models, then, top-down intentions may not always be followed for example, when those intentions fail to overcome entrenched habits but these intentions are not themselves contaminated by between-task competition.
It could be far more effective than the local multicultural festivals which, however good their intentions, often fail to bring together those who know each other least.
