Typically, an owner will identify certain players or front-office employees he wants to keep.
Front-office staff, fan expectations, the stadium, media environment and the length of a manager's tenure also impact performance.
In 2012, the Astros added 100 new front-office employees, replacing 70 that left and adding 30 new roles.
On Monday, he went in to work and Jeannie, the front-office secretary, stopped by with a cannoli and some vanilla chai.
My guess is he'll return to his front-office job if the Royals' offense doesn't improve, though I wouldn't rule out a miracle.
But it is a reminder that truthful and unfettered internal stability and quality in the front-office translates to success on the playing field.
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First, as back-office jobs (susceptible to automation) have declined in importance, front-office jobs (which require certain bundles of skills, especially social skills) have increased.
The first half of 2010 has witnessed an increase in front-office hires and revenue-generating roles as banks set themselves up for expansion in the region.
Through a team spokesman, the Rangers' front-office members declined to comment on Jagr, citing a reluctance to discuss publicly a player on an opposing team.
America's International Association of Administrative Professionals formerly the National Secretaries Association reports that it has more than 500 job-titles under its umbrella, ranging from front-office co-ordinator to electronic-document specialist.
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The Fritz Pollard Alliance, a group of minority coaches and front-office, scouting and game-day NFL officials, wants the Rooney Rule expanded to apply to coordinators, assistant head coaches and club president positions.
Jed York, the 49ers CEO, has hired several executives from Silicon Valley tech companies for key front-office positions, including former Facebook Inc. executive Gideon Yu, who is now the team's president and a part owner.
But since retiring in 1993, Brett has rejected innumerable coaching offers, having chosen instead to serve as vice president of Royals operations, a front-office position that allowed him to stay home and raise a family in the Kansas City area.
And since 1997, when the 6-foot-11 Wake Forest grad first donned the silver and black as the NBA draft's No. 1 overall pick, no American sports team has done that job better. it's hard to imagine that's not primarily a product of Duncan's no-nonsense efficiency, though Fratello points out that Popovich and the Spurs' front office -- as well as the personnel it's paired with Duncan -- deserve credit.
Take hope, my humanities-oriented friends, software is finally getting good enough to shift engineers to the back-office and unleash humanities-centric creative thinking at the front office, which will be transformative.
Despite having no background in hockey, he worked his way into a minor-league front office in Hershey and earned Executive of the Year honors in 1997.
Mozeliak, an 18-year veteran of the Cardinals front office, is credited with acquiring players such as All-Stars Matt Holliday, David Freese, Carlos Beltran, Lance Berkman and Rafael Furcal in his five years as GM.
Instead, we usually compete with a back-office systems that someone is persuading the front office they should use.
The Knicks won just one game in his first two postseasons after former team president Donnie Walsh, who undertook the rebuilding of the Knicks from 2008-11 before returning to the Pacers' front office, made the deal to acquire the All-Star forward from Denver in February 2011.
The arrangement was fraught with difficulties from the beginning, as strong personalities within the locker room and an inability to pick his own front office staff isolated Villas-Boas from the start.
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From a statistical perspective, Snow wants to add value to the front office without clouding the decision-making process.
He gained plenty of clout in sports circles for having developed the likes of general manager Theo Epstein and other twenty- and thirty-something-year-old talent in the front office.
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Tactical, short- term support to the front office consumes available time and resources, preventing the embassy from developing a strategic approach to public diplomacy in support of policy objectives.
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In downtown Los Angeles, about 150 young demonstrators -- many of them undocumented immigrants -- rallied in front of the federal immigration office Friday and exalted over the news from Washington.
As for Eastwood, in his five-plus decades in the film business, he has scored--both in box office grosses and award show acclaim--for his myriad roles in front of and behind the camera.
It's an Amazon-like office supplier with no shop front, near zero inventory and a few staff.
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Inside a low-rise office building in Monterrey, Mexico, hundreds of workers sit in front of computer screens, processing insurance-claims data all day.
L-shaped table in an office in Lagos, discussing a story on that morning's front page about an oil-pipe explosion.
He yanked 5, 000 Transmedia processing machines out of restaurants and combined Dining's classier front-end product with Transmedia's superior back-office system that credited savings on monthly charge-card accounts.
"People have to have relationships -- not just from doing well in the front office but to asset management and private wealth management in particular, " says Hollands.
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