Talk to your customers, global supply chain people, manufacturing people, sales people, and others to get their opinions about the risks and benefits of your plan.
That, of course, drives the food chain for people and also cattle up by quite a bit and then it affects the economy.
Between these villages on the mountain fringe plains of Afghanistan, and the peddler of heroin in Britain and elsewhere, there's a shadowy chain of people, beginning with traders in local bazaars who buy the opium.
It also points to your place on the food chain: People who are high-status tend to look longer at people they're talking to, compared with others, says a 2009 research review in Image and Vision Computing.
It said the case was an example of a growing trend, in which trademark and rights owners targeted the "weakest link" in the chain of people that helped content, be it fiction, movies or music, appear online.
Often decisions go through a chain of several people, many of whom have the power to veto, but not the power to approve.
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Coral reefs are an essential element in the food chain for coastal people, providing nurseries for fish and shallow hunting-grounds for fishing boats.
Nutrition specialist Dr. Melina Jampolis said McCotry's regimen isn't as bad as the horror stories of people chain-smoking to stave off hunger or eking out a meager existence on cayenne-pepper-flavored water.
There are a further 1, 200 people employed at the chain's dealerships, with some 4, 000 people supplying parts.
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The chain serves 60 million people a day, up 14 million since 2002.
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More problematic is the incentives the value chain creates for sales people.
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Giuliani threw in his lot with a questionable chain, We the People USA, which sells do-it-yourself services for bankruptcy, divorce, wills and trusts.
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However, what I would like to encourage people to do is think in terms of a chain of events that starts with giving people money and ends with the consequences that you are concerned with.
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For example, what does an extended supply chain look like over time when people are tied together in a social platform?
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Cosi ( COSI - news - people ), a chain of over 100 eateries scattered about the U.S. and United Arab Emirates.
"Mobile games as a genre isn't being marketed enough by the people in the food chain, " said Paul Munford, who publishes a weekly e-mail newsletter about the mobile phone industry, Monty's Gaming and Wireless Outlook.
Ouidad is named for the founder of a New York-based chain of salons and products designed for people with curly hair.
The sector employs some three million people across a huge supply chain and has a strong multiplier effect on the UK economy.
Few hotel companies beside Starwood (nyse: HOT - news - people )'s W chain have ever tried to turn a single boutique hotel into a minichain.
"We want to get the latest from the whole range of people involved in the food chain on what has happened and start to learn the first lessons, " Mr Garot told Agence France Presse.
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Obviously, all 400 people on that e-mail chain know who he is, by his design.
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Taj Lands End, a branch of the famous Taj hotel chain -- its lobby is great for people watching.
While not chained by others, we chain ourselves by comfortably surrounding ourselves with likeminded people who reinforce our beliefs.
"The supply chain is not in great shape, and people aren't sure projected demand reflects real demand, " Sue said.
The losers will include those (like Borders, an extinct chain of bookshops) that keep selling things people are happy to buy online.
Rick Hendrie, senior vice president of marketing for Uno's, says the chain is doing its best to make sure people have choices.
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