The brain seems organized around the basic processes of minimizing threat and maximizing reward.
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In theory, that reduces your dependence on how each investment performs, minimizing volatility and maximizing return.
They are at odds with the basic values of traditional management: hierarchical bureaucracy and maximizing shareholder value.
He also long-tossed up to 350 feet, and still does, all in pursuit of getting stronger and maximizing velocity.
On its face, it seems to mean that pleasing investors and maximizing profits is secondary to accruing an ever-larger community of users.
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We are pioneers in blogs and social media, in managing and maximizing our engagement with readers, and in deploying new technologies and approaches.
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Of course, foreign aid saves lives, and maximizing the effectiveness of our assistance should remain a priority of future Republican and Democratic administrations.
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Firms have to be able to connect project colleagues to information, project tools, and each other while minimizing risks and maximizing delivery speed.
For entirely rational reasons, those older systems were optimized for internal workflows and maximizing billing since that is what has been rewarded historically.
But in order to compete with them, enterprise IT executives will have to follow suit by reducing their costs and maximizing their flexibility.
And the ability to transform your vision into an executable strategy, which involves lots of communication, finding the right people and maximizing their potential.
Google is about breaking new ground and maximizing productivity with minimal computing resources at the possible disadvantage of requiring completely new tools and methods.
After an impressive string of successes, the company focus shifted away from meeting customer needs toward the internal goal of beating General Motors and maximizing growth.
His idea: Let the government coax them into investing in these toxic assets by minimizing the chance that they'll lose big and maximizing the chance they'll profit if all goes right.
The key to daring new things is an evaluation process that lets you learn quickly and either fail fast or keep improving, minimizing the resources at risk and maximizing opportunities for learning.
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This becomes more complex as the business expands and suddenly there are infrastructure costs that require a minimum amount of sales, which requires expanding the customer base through marketing and maximizing repeat sales.
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The government had denied any wrongdoing and said that it opted for allocating the blocks instead of auctioning them as it intended to increase the production of coal and maximizing profits wasn't its motive.
Now it is about wellbeing and maximizing ability.
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Moral: You have to decide up front what you actually want to achieve with your money--and that means managing, protecting and maximizing your future earning power much more than just fiddling with growth stocks or exotic tax shelters.
You can speed it up to mere hours by pouring the wine form the bottle into a decanter and maximizing the surface area in contact with the atmosphere, but this still takes too long and leaves you with another tricky thing to clean.
And they do this by maximizing the territory that falls under their control and by maximizing the powers they have within the territory.
Our organization is keenly focused on the scheduled April 29th launch of "Grand Theft Auto IV, " and on maximizing the value of the game to the Company and, in turn, our stockholders.
While it would be convenient and gratifying if maximizing profit and minimizing social suffering worked well together, evidence suggests that in many instances, the combination is a volatile one.
Instead, investment banks should serve their shareholders and partners by maximizing profits and compensation while explicitly stating that no government aid will ever be taken should private investment dry up.
Unfortunately, that's the mistake most people make: concentrating their positions and not maximizing their chances of making those big profits.
An elder law attorney can assist in the process of choosing the appropriate facility and in maximizing the benefits available.
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Much of this is thanks to the development of the Eagle Ford Shale, and the Eagle Ford Consortium has played a very significant role in ensuring that development has taken place in an orderly fashion, and in maximizing its benefits across the communities in the Region.
Some have suggested that if women are less prone to taking risks and have goals other than simply maximizing compensation and value, and if they were leading these firms, then the investments into risky real estate and real-estate-backed assets would have been less.
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