Companies interested in achieving top performance would be wise to support employees in these endeavors.
This custom system is optimized for reduced heat and top performance, whether you're speeding on the flats or up a hill.
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But while advertised speeds often grab consumers' attention, wireless engineers note that consumers rarely see the top performance in everyday use.
And his main aim over the next couple of years will be a top performance in the Winter Olympics in Turin.
"He's played consistently well and it's important he puts in a top performance and leads from the front on Saturday, " he added.
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The LINPACK benchmark program, running on the part of the system that employs 68, 544 CPUs installed on the K computer being configured, recorded the world's top performance of 8.162 petaflops.
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Sporting a brushed stainless steel surface, and with a record-breaking slim profile of only 8.9mm thickness, the HE720 demonstrates once again the company's consistently strong ability to combine top performance with style.
This means much like the original PadFone, the CPU can already go full throttle when needed even under "Normal" mode, whereas under Ultimate mode the phone would stay at top performance most of the time.
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"We're excited to present our latest Atlas 480GB mSATA solid state drive, demonstrating once again Mushkin's consistent ability to combine top performance, functionality, capacity, and low-power innovation, " said Brian Flood, Director of Product Development at Mushkin Inc.
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That includes editors whose job is to "enthusiastically" scorch cars around cones on a test track, brake as hard as possible again and again, and hammer the throttle repeatedly in an attempt to produce top performance figures.
When work teams get together, the ratio of positive interactions, such as support and encouragement, to negative interactions, such as disapproval and criticism, should be about 3-to-1 or higher in order to ensure top performance, based on research by Barbara Fredrickson, a psychology professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and others.
Currently, over 20% of sales come from ecommerce channels, a top tier performance in the industry.
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The top rookie performance came from Cam Newton, who was nothing short of dominant last season.
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It is hard to imagine who can top their performance last week.
So did Jobs top his performance last year, where he unveiled the "Jesus Phone, " kicking of a new line of business for Apple?
Only 9.4 percent of mid-cap funds and 23.3 percent of small-cap funds maintained top-quartile performance over the same period.
From Coca-Cola to FedEx, global companies are feeling the pain, which is translated into a weaker top-line performance.
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Going slow will propel you to the top of the performance heap.
Very few funds manage to consistently repeat top-half or top-quartile performance.
The company suffered a dismal top-line performance, with same-store sales declining five years in a row before turning up, ever so slightly, so far in 2010.
Some LPs have learned from hard experience that most PE funds can lay claim to top-quartile performance by selecting the benchmark that makes them look best.
Surprisingly, Nike has seen good top-line performance in Western Europe, with UBS expecting revenues to grow 5% and futures 4% on the back of a warmer than expected winter.
The Czechs, so unfortunate to lose their opening game to a last-minute Dutch penalty in Ajax on Sunday, know they will have to maintain that top-level performance to keep alive their hopes.
With a brand-new quad-core processor (i7-3632QM) developed by Intel, a high-end Nvidia GeForce GXT 660M and 8GB of RAM, the new Blade isn't quite at the top of the performance ladder, but is definitely within shouting distance.
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Shareholders don't know what's going on and how these decisions have been arrived at and crucially there isn't a close enough relationship between high pay for people at the top and the performance of the company itself.
The defects scandal came on top of disastrous performance last year by its US division, which handed out cheap loans in an effort to boost sales, but then found that many customers were unable to make their repayments.
Traditional top-down performance reviews can also cause intimidation among employees and make them fearful of acknowledging weaknesses, says Samuel A. Culbert, a management professor at the University of California, Los Angeles and co-author of the book "Get Rid of the Performance Review!"
Performance is top priority with the second generation Intel Core i7 and Core i5 processors that deliver even more performance automatically when you need it with a better visual PC experience built-in.
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