But developing people who will build and lead teams is paramount for impact and sustainability.
It starts with organizational strategy, followed by developing people to achieve that strategy.
We have focused on working on the business while ignoring our role in developing the people.
Our clients see developing their people as a way to motivate and retain talent and create a competitive edge to help attract new talent.
While there is a lot of money spent on recruiting, in most situations there is not sufficient focus on training and developing sales people.
One factor mitigating this trend is that in developing nations people live healthier, longer lives and therefore can work much longer, increasing their lifetime economic contributions.
Karl, as a more senior person is at a point in his career where he is spending more time developing young people and more junior faculty.
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I'm referring to the company's commitment to developing its people.
There are brilliant people developing new technologies that open up wonderful opportunities for economics.
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They suggested that the rise was a result of more people developing allergies.
Taking these risks into account, they believe that adding rosiglitazone to basic lifestyle recommendations could prevent substantially more people developing diabetes.
But the injected killed virus version is what's given in the United States today because of the rare instances of people developing polio from the oral vaccine.
Temperature increases were found to increase the chances of people developing severe headaches, and low atmospheric pressure, which usually causes cloudy, stormy weather, can have a smaller effect.
The classic example of this phenomenon comes from a European study that looked at risk factors for developing PTSD in people trapped in a terrible nightclub fire in which many people died.
While much of the Rio agenda focuses on the developing world and people's rights to water, food, energy, education, health and so on, there are implications for rich Western countries as well.
Within those two buckets what was relevant was that in the developing world most people still depend on agriculture for their livelihood and want to know how to stay healthy in their limited means because each healthy day is a wage earning day.
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In the developing world most people would be delighted to live in a city that was prosperous and well governed, if that meant jobs were available, officials were honest, the streets were safe, housing was affordable and transport, sanitation and basic utilities operated to minimum standards.
Young people are actually very similar. (laughs) The biggest difference is that in developing countries the young people are extremely aware of world issues.
That is putting a great deal of weight on Zetia, a new cholesterol drug Schering (nyse: SGP - news - people ) is developing with Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ).
The Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation helps people and societies create cultures of peace by developing programs that focus on young people through the use of new media and traditional methods.
Ultimately, improving the lives of people in developing countries is the only thing that matters.
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Every day, 3 billion people in developing countries are exposed to toxic smoke when preparing meals.
So much for enabling poor people in developing countries to work their way out of poverty.
Still, the majority of people in developing countries--one out of nine, according to UNAIDS--are not getting treatment.
"We are committed to working with the NHS to help prevent people from developing diabetes, " the spokesperson added.
That could provide a lifetime of clean drinking water to 28, 000 people in developing countries, according to the NGO.
This way he could keep developing techniques while other people funded his research.
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