Most companies and CEOs do not have a good rationale of why they are doing the things they are doing, and how this should lead to superior performance.
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Good data underlies the ability of managers to improve operations, innovators to devise better solutions, and funders to reward superior performance, and good data is hard to come by in the nonprofit sphere.
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Managers also argue that allowing them to decide which brokers to use is crucial to superior investment performance.
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Over the past few decades, there have been hundreds of studies done linking a positive emotional state to superior athletic performance.
In this view, human capital is treated as an accumulative resource that benefits the organization like any other business asset, providing competitive advantage through a transformation of the unique capabilities of individual employees to superior organizational performance.
Based on the incredibly compact Pico-ITX form factor, measuring 10 cm x 7.2 cm, the VIA EPIA-P910 Pico-ITX combines a 1.0GHz VIA QuadCore E-Series processor and the latest VIA VX11H MSP to offer superior computing performance for ultra compact systems.
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There is no evidence supporting the notion that buying mutual funds with superior past performance will lead to superior returns in the years ahead.
Professional graphics cards are purchased separately by professionals to get 3D graphics performance that is superior to the graphics cards that come installed in their PCs.
Thanks to America's superior economic performance, they say, foreign investors are eager to buy dollar assets.
The higher the fees, the more difficult it is to achieve superior net investment performance.
Money managers also advertise superior performance to appeal to investors and inspire confidence, despite the SEC warning that past performance is not indicative of future results a warning which no one really listens to.
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Professional Graphics Cards are graphics cards purchased separately by professionals to get superior, faster 3D graphics performance from their PCs than they are able to get with the graphics cards that come installed with a computer.
He lead a participatory exercise that made visible the power of radical management techniques, showing them to be vastly superior to traditional management when it comes to performance improvement.
"The benefit of a natural-language approach is that you get performance superior to regular keyword searches, " says Jackie Fenn, a vice president at Stamford, Conn.
To change or add an implant, a surgeon had to show that the performance was superior or the price at least as low.
This new addition to Creative's comprehensive line up of high performance wireless speakers continues to uphold Creative's long held reputation of merging superior audio performance with great value.
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This new range of docking speakers offers a superior sound performance in comparison to the analog processing technology common in current docking speakers.
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We've combined the most sophisticated map engine in the market with OpenStreetMap's vast dataset, and have brought a next-generation map to NOOK that features unparalleled performance and superior visuals.
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America's superior performance owes a lot to structural reforms in the late 1970s and 1980s that created a more favourable climate for business, allowing firms to reap the benefits of new technology.
Offering superior performance with a fast CPU to simultaneously support multiple user streams, more memory to boost performance, four drives for up to 16TB of storage, and two Gigabit Ethernet ports for high speed data transfer and failover, the Cloud Storage 4000 is a robust storage, back-up and recovery solution.
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One of these awards, The Technology Advancement Award, which recognizes an organization that develops methodologies or products that enable superior supply chain performance, was awarded to SAP.
Features include Bluetooth, 8GB of internal storage and 1GB of RAM that provides smoother navigation, better video streaming, and superior gaming performance, along with access to over 200, 000 must-have Android apps through the 1Mobile Market.
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Six months later, when participants were contacted again and asked to solve calculations, researchers found that the group which had received five days of transcranial random noise stimulation showed "superior long-term performance, compared to sham controls".
Therefore, investors need to know whether paying more will increase the likelihood of superior performance.
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Featuring two bays for storage, the P2742G provides huge storage capacity up to 2TB and supports superior RAID 0 Technology for lightning speed performance.
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But my mother, in the only act of disloyalty I can ever recall, declared the performance of this aspiring thespian to be vastly superior to my own.
Studies show a correlation between more women in senior positions and superior company performance, though it is hard to know whether more sexual diversity improves performance or top-notch firms promote more women.
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Was such income win-win superior performance that created jobs and added wealth and innovation to America?
No employer wants to condition inclusion of company stock as a 401k investment option upon sustained superior investment performance.
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"While demonstrating superior industry performance and operational efficiency, the New Sustainability Champions innovate to overcome the real constraints that they face, " said Knut Haanaes, a BCG partner.
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