Heretofore, corporate voluntary pledges to improve the health of Americans have been linked neither to explicit measurable commitments nor to a framework for an independent evaluation.
Li offered the first measurable commitments, promising to cut the government workforce, halt spending on government offices and hotels, freeze spending on overseas trips and official vehicles and slash the 1,700 processes requiring government approval by a third.
Lastly, just take the first step: Make annual, measurable commitments to improve your workplace, the environment, your community or the lives of your customers.
Different from most gatherings of this type, the CGI asks participants for specific, measurable "Commitments to Action" to effect the kinds of changes necessary to forge the American role in global manufacturing – i.e. to advance manufacturing.
In addition, each Gender Champion chooses two other concrete and measurable commitments for gender equality in their organization.
Rather than directly implementing projects, the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) facilitates action by helping members connect, collaborate, and share knowledge so they can make effective and measurable Commitments to Action (or new, specific, and measurable plans to take action on a challenge).
They argue that leadership must make clear and measurable commitments, communicate clearly inside and outside the organization why increasing diversity at every level is a critical priority for greater mission achievement, analyze where bias may be hiding in hiring and promotion policies, and invest in mentoring, coaching, and development.
For example, increase coverage of nutrition programs from 20-30% to 90%; increase spending on nutrition from 0.2% of budget to 2% of budget, make specific measurable public commitments with time bound targets on nutrition outcomes, sign up to the Scaling Up Nutrition movement etc.
