Rather than focus on making goal-setting a dynamic, business-centric process, it became an HR compliance program.
These stark realities have prompted some would-be mediators to worry less about Kosovo's long-term constitutional status and to focus instead on the short-term goal of securing a ceasefire, ideally with dividing lines clear enough for peacekeepers to monitor.
Last week on CNBC, John Silvia, chief economist for Wells Fargo Securities, asked me how, as a disciple of asset allocation, I help my clients focus on the long-term goal in the face of such dramatic short-term volatility.
That foundation for sustained economic growth -- that must be our continuing focus and our ultimate goal.
In previous interviews, Mr. Najib has talked widely on this theme, describing his goal to push Malaysia onto a higher-growth path as the main focus of his administration.
In his address before Congress on Tuesday and in all of his appearances in the coming weeks and months, Netanyahu should have one goal: to bring the focus of debate back where it belongs - on the Palestinians.
By his own count, he'd helped the children of a half-dozen families represented there to navigate the competitive waters of the New York City private school scene, and to achieve a goal that's been the focus of much angst dating back to pre-kindergarten.
The positioning moves with the plays to focus on the offensive action, making this angle especially useful for goal-line situations.
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The United States can bring, as we did last night, unique capabilities in terms of breadth of operations and coordination, working with our coalition partners -- again, the French went in first, as you know, around Benghazi -- but with our coalition partners to focus, again, tightly then on this goal.
Human nature is to focus on the here and now but when we think of a long-term retirement goal, little things mean a lot.
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Barcelona blew a two-goal lead in the first leg despite dominating the first hour, and Guardiola said his team had to focus on the game and not be distracted by Saturday's showdown with Spanish title rivals Real Madrid.
And despite Moyes' attempts to change his team's focus with a double substitution, the on-loan Sturridge again showed his ruthlessness in front of goal when he fired in to double Bolton's lead.
Our goal wasn't just to focus on the underlying technology and improved hardware performance, as other makers of Android-based gaming hardware do, but to really try to address the needs of our users.
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