Manufacturing firms that gauge their success and failure on short-term sales numbers are actually reporting on their capacity to leverage research, technology, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and other functions over time in the context of the current economy.
In the meantime, Rangers carried on through alternating periods of on-field failure and success.
Rarely addressed in the context of climate change, future population trends could make the difference between success and failure in the long-term balance of human activities, atmosphere, and climate.
Wild success and heart-breaking failure are the order of the day.
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The level of success of these technologies will be country-specific so unlike other limiting factors, success and failure will be local.
Planning, organizing, setting goals and objectives to achieve the end-goal is necessary and are the difference between success and failure.
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However difficulties will remain for managers and companies to tailor goals for employees as metrics and easily quantifiable ways to measure success of failure -- be it profits or targets -- persist.
Two of the issues to which he has devoted the most attention since he arrived in the U.S. Senate, avian flu and nuclear nonproliferation, are grand global problems, which, while relatively uncontroversial, are nonetheless risky choices for signature issues, since, in both cases, success is invisible, and failure could mean disaster of world-changing proportions.
The tiniest slip-up can spell the difference between success and failure.
But in the four years of Bush senior and of Carter and the eight years of Clinton -- as well as the two terms of the man who left the world stage Tuesday, George Walker Bush -- each found their success often overwhelmed by challenges and failure.
The amount of energy released from a well-motivated employee can make the difference between transformation success and failure.
Yet we now live in a society and era for whom it is a basic axiom that the success or failure of grown-up life is directly tied to the quality of the care one receives in childhood.
For institutions whose margins are often razor-thin, three percent could be the difference between success and failure.
Spurred by Philadelphia's success, other cities are launching similar projects--and they say the failure of Orlando's pilot won't discourage them.
General and operations managers run the day-to-day functions of their organizations and are responsible for the success or failure of the venture.
And from now on, shareholders will have greater say on the pay of CEOs and other executives, so that they can reward success instead of failure, and help change the perverse incentives that encouraged so much reckless risk-taking in the first place.
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And from now on, shareholders and other executives can know that shareholders will have greater say on the pay of CEOs, so that they can reward success instead of failure, and help change the perverse incentives that encouraged so much reckless risk-taking in the past.
Just like a sports team, the infrastructure, brand history and tolerance for risk-taking are important elements in a marketer's success or failure.
The Dems. would emerge from the process able to say that they fought hard and succeeded in protecting Medicare and Medicaid- the entitlement programs that can have a huge impact on electoral success or failure.
During their tenure, the joint-owners have endured a rough ride from supporters frustrated at the club's lack of success, culminating in last season's failure to secure a top-four finish and a place in the Champions League.
Mr Annan has agonised in public about the UN's failure in Rwanda, when he was head of un peacekeeping, and has argued that his success as a peace-broker in Kenya last year owed something to the existence of R2P as a moral instrument.
The failure of the Gingrich revolution made many conservatives rethink their root-and-branch opposition to government, and the success of welfare reform has removed the most egregious example of government incompetence.
Coming so soon after Seattle, any meeting would need to be a stunning success to avoid being judged a catastrophic failure, and would also run the risk of a repeat of Seattle-style chaos.
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And if not, can you at least reassure them it wasn't the stimulus bill or the bank rescue plan -- (laughter) -- and if in general, you agree with that ratio of success, 30 percent failure, 70 percent success?
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