At the heart of his ETP is a pledge to introduce a more meritocratic society.
The system is designed to be both meritocratic (Theory 1) and democratic (Theory 2).
Along with performance-related pay has come a greater emphasis on meritocratic rather than seniority-based promotion.
Eastern Kentucky is one of America's least meritocratic enclaves, but failure still carries a stigma.
There's danger in the purely meritocratic worldview that individuals generally get what they deserve.
Within a generation, South Asia's most effective and meritocratic civil service had overseen the transformation of Bhutan.
Camus was a first-rate philosophy student, and the French meritocratic system had purchase even in the distant province.
And keeping the company culture meritocratic and decision-making distributed was natural for this sort of Silicon Valley team.
To succeed in this meritocratic race, you need talent, ingenuity, salesmanship and connections.
We stubbornly cling to the meritocratic idea that talent should be a determining factor, especially when it comes to writing.
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Thanks to a meritocratic culture, and the discipline of having some of its stock traded, Petrobras is a leader in deep-sea oil.
Yet this meritocratic theory clashes with the reality of segregation and poverty.
But one reason for this is that the military world seems so different from the civilian one: more meritocratic, efficient and disciplined.
Since the creation of a professionalised civil service in the 20th century, however, the system has certainly become a good deal more meritocratic.
The meritocratic assumption is that public provision of basic services, particularly education, does enough to counter this advantage to give everyone a reasonable start.
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The refreshing meritocratic idea is this: regardless of your race, nationality, or family background, if you score well on the SHSAT, you gain admittance.
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European soccer clubs spend whatever they wish on salaries, build stadiums from private funds and have leagues that use a meritocratic promotion and relegation scheme.
But, as long as we remain loyal to the ideal of a meritocratic democracy then we must demand institutions that meritocratic democracies are capable of managing.
As traditional business models characterized by hierarchical order slowly evolve to become more inclusive, meritocratic structures in the future, women will undoubtedly be an important asset.
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Many might be dismissive of the idea that you occasionally need to network to get work, believing it is disingenuous and unnecessary in a meritocratic job market.
Whether a more meritocratic elite can emerge out of the ashes of Fiji's conflagration to bring the country back to a constitutional democracy remains to be seen.
Promoting an aggressive and meritocratic management structure, BTG Pactual employs more than 2, 100 professionals and has offices in Brazil, Chile, Peru, Colombia, United States, United Kingdom and China.
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The court of the great early sultans was surprisingly meritocratic.
Bagsying all the best seats and then leaving them unused, depriving genuine supporters of the chance to cheer on their favourites, appears at odds with the meritocratic ideals which underpin the Games.
But eliminating these practices won't turn these institutions into a meritocratic mecca because, as Mr Karabel argues, the concept of meritocracy itself is strategic and flexible, and often in outright conflict with egalitarian aims.
Hacker culture is also extremely open and meritocratic.
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In Barack Obama's wildly multicultural America, strong restrictionist sentiments have not gained much political ground, and, at most, efforts are directed not at reducing legal immigration but rather shifting it toward a more meritocratic model.
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