With a new model, every person would feel more ownership in company goals and would take responsibility for improving the organization by whatever means available to him.

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The company has previously used the technology, combined with other techniques, in a similar review of single person council tax discounts in Derbyshire.

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In this case, a customer may be a person (as in retail sales), or even an entire company and all the contacts with them.

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In a conference call, Goldman executives agreed that giving in at all would cast doubt on every mortgage-derivatives deal arranged by the company, according to a person familiar with the call.

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Chinese firms now are attempting to negotiate partnerships with FTS International, a Fort Worth, Texas, company that specializes in hydraulic fracturing, a process used to extract energy from shale, according to one person familiar with the matter.

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We outgrew our original management personnel, and with some drama and growing pains we managed to change the managers that were effective in a 20 person company for those to help us grow to a 500 person company.

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Apple and Samsung have presented closing arguments in their high-stakes patent case today, with each company spending two hours to convince the nine-person jury in San Jose federal court today to side with them in a trial over the designs and technology in their popular smartphones and tablet computers.

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