The Court of Master Sommeliers, established in 1977, weighs appearance and performance nearly as high as knowledge.
Jones was sentenced to six months in prison for lying about her use of banned performance enhancing drugs and her knowledge of an illegal check-cashing scheme.
Redesign oversight mechanisms and performance levels to incorporate acquired knowledge.
These "marathon mice" can run twice as long as their unmodified brothers and sisters-- and, in a paper coming out right at the time of the Olympics, that's leading to hand-wringing about the possibilities of applying this knowledge to create performance-enhancing drugs.
Because the biggest obstacle to better performance isn't lack of knowledge.
Hopefully, the next year can provide clarity and allow the baseball writers to sift through the dense fog that is performance enhancing substances with the proper knowledge and tools.
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However, if the lack of performance is not due to lack of knowledge or skill, then training is definitely not the solution.
They understand that index fund portfolios outperform portfolios using active funds almost all the time and use this knowledge to increase their portfolio performance.
So, think of parenting as a process where you continuously have the opportunity to take on a new challenge, acquire knowledge, and improve your performance.
How will you embrace this new knowledge base to expand your organizations performance?
Likewise, performance metrics are hard to come by in knowledge work, making it challenging to manage improvement efforts (which often lack a clear owner in the first place).
With a project-level perspective, an experienced developer possesses a thorough knowledge of field-tested plant performance down to the level of the solar module and even the solar cell itself.
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Trust-based relationships are fundamental to effectively participating in the knowledge flows that accelerate learning and performance improvement, something that is becoming more and more essential in a world of mounting performance pressure.
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Individuals are not selected based on their knowledge or interest in social and environmental performance.
Our studies, with their clever acronyms, provide knowledge that is integrated into guidelines and performance measures.
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Even if the employees' performance and career potential are unexceptional, their institutional knowledge, direct relationships, or technical expertise can make their retention critical.
We know from research, on industries as varied as semi-conductors and mutual funds, that they often take valuable knowledge with them and therefore enhance the performance of your rivals.
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While experts may differ about how to define adequate levels of performance, widespread agreement has emerged over the need to think about pupil performance in terms of a "range" of knowledge and skills.
He told his wife about the behaviors that lead to poor performance: namely, overconfidence about their skills, their knowledge and their future prospects.
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But one of the allegations contained in the Miami New Times article relates to Rodriguez purchasing illegal performance-enhancing drugs in addition to using them, and people with knowledge of the team's thinking say the team believes that if the MLB investigation finds evidence of this alleged criminal activity, it would be an avenue to claim breach of contract.
In addition to knowledge, there are three other elements at the very heart of high performance: faith, fire and focus.
In the early 1990s they had devised a way for businesses and other organizations to measure nonfinancial performance--customer perception, for example, or a company's ability to foster knowledge within its work force--and measure talent it wanted to keep or promote.
But we struggle to capture and perpetuate the knowledge that our organization accumulates over time and share it with our colleagues so that our team performance can improve.
The FINRA Foundation notes that if the majority of investors lack even elementary investing concepts, yet rate their knowledge and competency as high, it makes it difficult to change the pattern of under-performance.
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While it is now common knowledge that the overwhelming majority of participants in 401(k)s are justifiably dissatisfied with the performance of these plans and the limited retirement security they will provide, little attention has been paid to the Wild West of retirement planning 457 and 403(b)s.
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Getting more knowledge is not the only thing--or even the most important thing--that produces great performance.
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