All the meetings, all the brain storming, all the good intentions will amount to naught without great tactics and individual responsibility to execute on strategies both large and small.

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Assuming that both companies are now sufficiently capitalized, they must now produce and execute on new strategies.

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Also true, if you fall into the trap of trying to use ETFs to execute tricky macro strategies.

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Prime brokerage is the business of catering to hedge funds, particularly lending securities to funds so they can execute their trading strategies.

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The return swap allows two investors on either side of the swap to execute real estate strategies that cannot be accomplished in the private real estate market.

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The most successful companies, we found, are those that focus on a particular, specifically aligned set of common and distinct capabilities that enable them to better execute their chosen strategies.

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It was inevitable that these strategies would be hard to execute, and even more difficult to impose and monitor.

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The question is: When Barack Obama is done with his hope-based initiatives, will America still retain the option to execute more realistic, and more efficacious, strategies?

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Here's hoping