It also requires an ability forcefully and credibly to shake things up, to challenge assumptions and to monitor and insist upon performance, even where that might erode one's popularity with subordinates.
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The testing is done by getting potential customers, suppliers, partners and channel operators to challenge the assumptions.
What is more, the approach utilized in 1976 by then-CIA Director George Bush to challenge the assumptions and analysis of the official estimates of Soviet military activities should be institutionalized.
They applaud Mr. Bolton's efforts to challenge the assumptions of intelligence analysts and estimates disinformed by a Castro spy who was, until the fall of 2001, the Cuba desk officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency.
By focusing on synthesis, analysis, and informed criticism, rather than straight day-to-day reporting, knowledge journalists are less restrained by the need to maintain access to sources, and thereby may have more freedom to challenge prevailing assumptions and conventions.
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Incentive backed challenges attract "maverick thinkers who challenge normal assumptions" and make heroes of the teams who compete in these paradigm-changing efforts to solve significant social problems like building the ultimate fuel-efficient car or developing a lunar landing vehicle.
He said that spending on safer sex campaigns had "fallen dramatically" over the past 10 years and "we must challenge the assumptions some gay men make about HIV and re-energise gay communities to tackle a real and growing threat to their sexual health".
Every day, with every lesson you teach, you remind our young people that their story is part of the broader American story, and you show them how they, as artists, can challenge our assumptions and help us view our world in new and very unexpected ways.
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The analysis of your playscript can help challenge your assumptions about what the industry looks like and where profits are or will be made, helping you move beyond looking at current financial results to seeing the logic and the causes of the drama you're engaged in.
We should be willing to challenge old assumptions in order to lessen the prospects of such violence in the future. (Applause.) But what we cannot do is use this tragedy as one more occasion to turn on each other. (Applause.) That we cannot do. (Applause.) That we cannot do.
To deliver a different experience, we must challenge the usual assumptions we make about education.
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Rather than further empowering the Federal Reserve, which helped create our present economic difficulties, it's time for individuals to challenge his inane assumptions while greatly reducing the Fed's role in the national and world economy.
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Changing times do tend to challenge our traditional political assumptions and question our conventional wisdom about left and right.
Those who want to dislodge him now challenge all the preceding assumptions.
It should be remembered, however, that the eurozone economy will deteriorate further in the months ahead and that will once again challenge most of the assumptions that a corner has been turned.
He assigned a cross-functional cost-cutting committee to challenge the company's assumptions.
So, what assumptions are you going to challenge about your life today?
Like politics in general, the discussion was built on three assumptions that I would like to challenge.
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