By bringing in Mothercare, I can use their advanced management pattern to penetrate the retail market.

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This would include the internal culture of the organisation, the attitude of management, and the pattern of incentives as perceived by the staff.

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It's very important in crisis management not to fall into a comfortable pattern because you may be misperceiving the data.

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Do they realize that they are watching, not just individual companies stumble, but a vivid demonstration of a broader pattern, namely that traditional management no longer fits the world in which we are living today?

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In doing this, he was following the pattern of several large European states who were busy centralising government and economic management.

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Major Japanese companies have, historically, been reluctant to bring outsiders into the boardroom, a pattern that many corporate-governance experts have said has led to insular management and a number of high-profile corporate scandals in recent years.

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"With ETFs the individual investor has tools and techniques that were solely the province of sophisticated investors even a year ago, " says John Bollinger of Bollinger Capital Management, whose Bollinger Bands are a popular method for identifying stocks that have moved outside their normal trading pattern.

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We are holding to a pattern of no installations on a individual local machine to experience our version of multitasking and a integrated social management layer.

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