"I like to think of us as a premier sports performance company and we do really extreme product development -- and sometimes the products we develop are unique and it requires somebody in what we call 'the front row' to explain to the masses that this is the best, " Baden said.
How about choosing a performance metric that ACTUALLY reflects company performance?
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Not only does job dissatisfaction damage employee performance, but it can damage company performance, too.
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Performance by company has varied widely, although some players look ripe for investment.
High-performance computing company Silicon Graphics this afternoon posted better-than-expected results for its fiscal fourth quarter ended June 24.
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Hulton, director of applications for the high-performance computing company Pico, and Muller, a researcher for mobile security firm CellCrypt, plan to make their decryption method free and public.
Rarely is the superior risk-adjusted performance of company stock mentioned.
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Keynote, an Internet performance management company, echoes the IRS's claim.
According to a report of social networking sites in the month of February by web performance monitoring company AlertSite, MySpace's response time clocked in at an average 5.04 seconds, an Internet eternity compared to Facebook (1.67 seconds), LinkedIn (1.96 seconds) and Twitter (1.78 seconds).
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Performance data show that sponsor-to-sponsor deals did underperform other types of deals slightly on an absolute return basis by 3 percentage points, on average, in the years prior to 2004, and by 8 percentage points since then, according to PERACS, a PE performance analytics company (see Figure).
In an interview with Forbes this afternoon, CEO Mike Smerklo notes that the company uses a 100% pay for performance model: the company take a small slice of the additional revenues generated by the companies that use the service.
The weaker underlying performance sent the company's shares lower on Wednesday, ending down 4.7%.
Rather, it will probably have the performance of a company like VistaPrint (Nasdaq:VPRT) or Shutterfly (Nasdaq:SFLY).
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But the disconnect between stocks and company performance seems to be wider than ever.
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And their legal fight hasn't slowed down the sales or financial performance of either company.
All of this results in better employee hiring, which leads to improved company performance.
Indian companies have aided the turnaround of struggling U.S. firms, saving jobs and improving company performance.
But he defies critics of his pay and the performance of the company's shares.
Yet the crisis has not broken the banking sector's dominance in mobilising savings and monitoring company performance.
You will need to demonstrate sustained performance at the company before you make this request, said Mr. Kaufman.
Widespread cost cutting and steady demand for computer chips enabled it to improve its performance, the company said.
The performance of the company, serving customers in 180 countries, is seen as a bellwether of the global economy.
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Company performance can suffer as they struggle to make decisions or treat staff fairly, according to management and medical experts.
YCharts, which charts historical company performance in dozens of ways, has found a way to shorten those starting lists considerably.
Shares in the Anglo-Australian industrial services group Brambles have tumbled on worries about the performance of the company's pallet-leasing business.
Performance at the company has been steady, but holding, in recent years as congressional appropriators skipped over funding a highway-construction bill.
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" Based on the total rate of incidents and their severity, "we recorded the best year in safety performance in our company's history.
Unfortunately for the harder-headed managers who prefer logistics to human development, none of the four operational practices showed a significant effect on company performance.
These criteria were chosen because they reflect commonly recognized measures of overall company performance and are associated with the creation of value for shareholders.
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