The phrase
"bean counting" refers to the careful or excessive counting and recording of small details or items, typically in a financial or administrative context. It often suggests someone focusing on trivial or minor things rather than the bigger picture.
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The concern expressed won't surprise anyone: how can you get away
from bean counting in evaluating organizations that engage in activities that just aren't susceptible to measurement by numbers.
He did sort of mend the bridges and made it work in the end, but that really shocked me: to treat someone you love the most in such a neglectful way because you were too focused
on bean counting even though you already had all the money you would ever need (and that is in his 20s — he was a multi-millionaire).
He did sort of mend the bridges and made it work in the end, but that really shocked me: to treat someone you love the most in such a neglectful way because you were too focused on
bean counting even though you already had all the money you would ever need (and that is in his 20s — he was a multi-millionaire).
While productivity in education can conjure up oft - maligned images
of bean counting or treating students like «widgets» in a factory, the productivity I'm studying actually shows just the opposite.
Negative comments about churches and bean counting????
I see it in my field of history with its incessant resorting to
economic bean counting as the key to understanding people and events.
Give me that sort of response over the numb shrugs and box -
office bean counting that greet each week's new would - be blockbuster.
Among these is the likelihood that, in the race to meet standards, schooling will be reduced to following schedules and scripts; that time spent with literature and rich language will be driven out by vocabulary workbooks; that learning science will become merely the memorization of a string of definitions of technical terms; in short, that American anti-intellectualism (on which I have more to say) will triumph in a haze
of bean counting.
Some people call it score keeping or
bean counting, and I guess that's appropriate.
Since I've been «on the inside» of leadership, I know that the real reason most churches try to baptize (in many cases rebaptize) as many people as possible is what I think of a church «
bean counting», resulting in a statistic that proves the church is actually doing something.
And do not get me started on
the bean counting board,
«We are not in
a bean counting business,» Miner said.
Snyder induced instantaneous «jelly -
bean counting» skills in normal people using transcranial magnetic stimulation.
«It's almost like rubbing salt in a raw wound,» Roberts said, criticizing efforts to tabulate a number as «
bean counting.»
Would you rather just do the coaching and leave the selling, administration, marketing, and
bean counting to someone else?
Birdman serves as a dark satire on everything about the movie biz —
the bean counting deliberateness that spawns a world of superhero movies; the way talent is ignored if it comes from the wrong sources; the potential for critics to abuse their craft and the way such a nomadic industry can affect family.
I fear that any delays by offering different modes of «
bean counting» contributes to delaying urgently needed action.
My «
bean counting» is not meant as a delay tactic, but as a means of addressing what I see as an important cause of limited action, and that is that no jurisdiction has, to date, been willing to impose the types of incentives (carrots or sticks) on a broad enough set of individual and corporate decisions to drive real change.