Companies are trying to improve themselves operationally, reducing overhead while improving customer relationship loyalty.
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"They were using it to improve themselves and they got the support, " he said.
Everyone's so motivated and personally driven anyway they'll be wanting to improve themselves and our own game.
Leaders and management should encourage 360 degree reviews and always use the feedback to improve themselves and the organization.
It is laudable for people to work hard to improve themselves, and very few world class athletes are lazy.
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But perhaps frackers, who inject high-pressure fluid into rocks deep underground to release natural gas, are beginning to improve themselves.
In the meantime the rebar market became a commodity and the prices collapsed, forcing the minimills to improve themselves to move up to the next best thing to make for steel.
And now it's -- it appears that as we see in most down economies, a lot of people are looking to the higher education segment to improve themselves and obviously train for the jobs of the future.
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You know, the people who I meet now that I find most inspiring who are successful I think are people who are not only willing to work very hard but are constantly trying to improve themselves and to think in new ways, and not just accept the conventional wisdom.
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This can be one of the most challenging things for a leader as it takes humility and a willingness to hear what they must be willing to change and improve in themselves.
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Finally, I encourage young people to focus on things they'd like to improve about themselves that they can potentially change (such as becoming a better student, musician or athlete) and try their best to be strong and healthy by eating a well-balanced nutritious diet, getting at least one hour of exercise daily, and avoiding harmful habits such as smoking cigarettes or using drugs.
Moreover, adds Mercer's Haig Nalbantian, American evidence implies that employee share-ownership schemes are unlikely to improve productivity by themselves.
But even so, there is a possibility that Apple could use this very public pressure upon themselves to improve their own competitive position.
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In a way, all the principals in our latest scandal have spent a lot of time trying to improve the picture of themselves that's in the record.
The extra amount of money in the bank may make them uncomfortable, or they may feel that they owe it to themselves to improve quality of living now income has increased.
So if they're getting this good information from OPOWER and they see that, boy, that drafty window is costing me a couple of hundred bucks a year, they're now going to have an incentive to go to Home Depots or go to Lowes to hire a certified contractor and make the changes that will ultimately pay for themselves, improve our environment, and improve our economy.
It also means employees need to think about ways to keep themselves motivated and improve their morale.
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Education is a hand up not a hand out, and with it, children and families can improve the socioeconomic conditions for themselves, their communities, countries, and future generations.
She believed that Victorian family values were the way to improve society, through people bettering themselves.
The downside of the Clippers' continued improvement is that Blake Griffin, Chris Paul (pictured) and company haven't left themselves much room to improve next season.
Its members obsessively track biometric, behavioral and environmental information with smartphone apps and body-monitoring devices, and perform experiments on themselves to try to improve their lives.
All this has prompted drug companies to ask themselves if they can improve on nicotine (and, of course, produce a patentable product as opposed to a drug that anyone can sell).
Those attempting to improve the human lot worried that they themselves could be in the grip of internal cant.
Ms Wolf advocates letting them decide themselves what training would best improve their chances on the job market and then subsidising them directly.
The commercial banks themselves are also trying to improve debt collection.
Essentially it gives parents 12 weeks to improve their child's attendance or find themselves in court.
But by themselves reorganizations rarely solve problems or improve corporate performance.
But we can improve the chances for the Afghan people to defend themselves.
Second, with the backing of the institutions, Mr Lerach believes he can improve the system, by forcing companies to reform themselves as part of the settlements that his law firm negotiates.
While the study suggests that confidence in the standards will improve with familiarity, as investors and analysts educate themselves the debate will move to the standard-setting process as well as the governance of the International Accounting Standards Board.
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