Businesses with a clear purpose perform better and are more likely to succeed.
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The first half was a disjointed affair, characterised by Stoke defending in numbers, West Ham piling forward to little clear purpose and over-officious refereeing.
The report says the research indicated that audiences recognised when language was used for "clear purpose or effect" and disliked "unnecessary or gratuitous use".
The chosen are usually the early investors who had put in huge amounts of money for one clear purpose: to get gigantic profits from their investment.
But the result is an unwieldy hydra of a book that, having made its point early on, lashes out in all directions to no clear purpose.
To illustrate the importance of clear purpose, The Strategist touts Swedish home goods retailer IKEA, founded in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad when he was 17-years-old.
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Too often they have been asked to fight in strange and distant places, for no clear purpose they could see and for no accomplishment they can measure.
For firms that constantly change chief executives, it reflects a lack of clear purpose and signals investors to stay away or sell, says David Joy, chief market strategist at RiverSource Investments.
In either case, a clear purpose would have been for Simpson to show he has nothing to hide in an effort to rehabilitate his image in the court of public opinion.
The "Powell doctrine, " which supports selective military intervention if there is a clear purpose, an attainable goal and a clear exit strategy, falls in line with President-elect George W. Bush's philosophy.
This Naples Ministerial Council will be key in setting the priorities of the agency in this decade, and Britain has now indicated it wants to play a leading role - but with a very clear purpose: to spur economic growth at home.
This latest theory, originally published in the journal BioEssays and reported in New Scientist magazine, says the key to hiccuping lies in a group of animals for whom combining closure of the glottis and contraction of the "breathing in" muscles does serve a clear purpose.
To be sure, such transnationalists profess to find support for their desire to morph our statutes and rulings, so as to conform them to the international "norms" and judicial rulings with which they are at odds, by citing the very founders whose handiwork and clear purpose they treat with such contempt.
Their attitude to Shakespeare was transformed, since it could no longer be claimed that history had a clear moral purpose.
The trouble is, most people and companies lack a clear sense of purpose in the first place.
There is a clear demand for purpose driven products and proof that companies should be driven by values.
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Western creditors and investors should steer clear of general purpose, balance-of- payments lending.
We shape our own destiny with conviction, compassion, and clear and common purpose.
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Lastly, but perhaps most important, make sure your brand and your people are motivated by a clear sense of purpose.
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"The police response over the first weekend was in my view inadequate and lacked clear direction and purpose, " the ombudsman said.
The key thing as a CEO is being clear on the purpose, articulating it constantly and in a compelling way, then delivering on it.
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In other words, they have a clear-cut purpose, a branding dynamic more and more branding professionals, we at Landor included, have identified as being paramount to long-term brand success.
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Her voice as it comes through in her writing, so personal, so visionary, so humorous and crystal-clear in its purpose, has guided me as to how to write this book.
But as with all technologies, no matter how sophisticated, companies need to develop a clear sense of purpose first and do some pruning of their data landscapes before unleashing the robots.
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Lib Dem MP Julian Huppert said the government had failed to adequately persuade the public of the need for new powers or make clear for what purpose they would be used.
Get clear on your purpose, your vision, your values.
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Of course, the Supreme Court has long recognized a strong presumption against federal preemption, which requires courts not to find state laws preempted unless that was the clear and manifest purpose of Congress.
The framework agreement is said to make clear that the overriding purpose of the talks is to make peace.
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And the purpose was clear: minimize danger and keep the players fresh.
Its purpose is clear and simple - to establish the cause of death of the seven people who died within the house.
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