It is outrageous that one or two senators' votes may make the difference between an initiative that will be, at the very best, a new and difficult management burden for a military already overtaxed with its warfighting responsiblities, and that may well actually prove to be devasting for the military.
Union contracts also make it difficult for management to lay-off workers and utilize part-time employees.
Despite facing a different, and difficult, management structure, and failing to secure any titles this season, F.
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It is difficult for management to admit their mistakes (they are human, and we are not good at that), and for the board to fire current management while the company is increasing its revenues and earnings.
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This company is certainly in a difficult position as management has been outspoken about its ambition to expand its deepwater drilling business over the last two years since acquiring its original two rigs.
Re-establishing uninterrupted earnings growth momentum will be extremely difficult with an impetuous management style, and with a growing track record of surprising both customers and investors.
The thing about this sort of business is that direct, hands on, management is very difficult indeed.
First, it is widely believed that active management outperforms during difficult times.
This market background is proving to be difficult for the fund-management industry.
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In practice, men are not allowed to get on the non-career track and women find it difficult to stay on the management track.
Doing a better job with power management is rather difficult.
The Science of Success is short on concrete examples, and Koch acknowledges that implementing his Market Based Management can be difficult because of the hazy connection between, say, property rights and the day-to-day decisions of a midlevel manager in charge of a fertilizer plant.
With the growing popularity of digital media and pay-for-download content, that scenario is made more difficult thanks to digital rights management copy-protection schemes, abbreviated as DRM, that make it nearly impossible to move or copy our music, movies and TV shows to the different devices we use every day.
Then when they try to initiate significant changes, a low sense of urgency within middle management makes execution painfully difficult.
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In the face of wildly uncertain demand, management can find it difficult to make the correct decisions about capital allocation and scaling production capacity.
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Big data refers to a set of information and data so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using conventional database management tools.
That is, a temporary dip in earnings is unlikely to result in a change in the dividend, or cause management to make the difficult choice to payout earnings that should be allocated to growing the business, both of which would put downward pressure on the price of the stock.
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Comparisons with publicly traded real estate investment trusts are difficult because Hines uses its property-management business as a loss leader and makes virtually all its profits from appreciation in property values.
Comparisons with publicly traded real estate investment trusts are difficult because Hines uses its property-management business as a loss leader and takes virtually all its profits from appreciation in property values.
The company increased its dividend and introduced a new share buyback program, as management highlighted their capacity to withstand difficult market conditions.
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The speed makes it increasingly difficult for time-pressed CMOs and marketing management to know which agencies are in, cool and equipped to handle their account.
Whether they derive from previous experience or common sense or some management obsession, they become more difficult to abandon the more they are attempted and fail.
Management incentive plans can also be difficult to create.
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Since these organizations operate under different management structures and motivations, it is difficult to get them all on the same page, especially under stressful conditions.
Unstructured customer conversation content is very difficult to map to enterprise transaction and master data management systems, which form the core of enterprise business application software.
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So it is often difficult for families to understand the concept of comprehensive wealth management.
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