Most companies start out in the Ambiguous stage, reaching the Aligned stage is realistic and attainable for any company.
Graf said that in the first stage, companies start paying attention to sustainability in a comprehensive way that includes use of resources and business practices.
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In the forwards, new skipper James Graham and Stuart Fielden, returning to the international stage for the first time in four years, start at prop.
And I see the power of music when I'm on stage in China: I start a Chinese song and the audience roars with delight that the blond, curly-haired girl with the banjo can sing their music.
China and others are entering the tricky middle-income stage of development in which the big advances from absorbing rich-world technology start to run out.
It prompts you to get moving and start work immediately, without being paralyzed in the analytic stage.
Second, we believe that large established companies will continue to invest in New York based start-ups, particularly at the seed stage.
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The home side had gone through three rounds to make it to the group stage for the first time in their history and the adrenalin of the occasion helped them make a promising start before reality kicked in.
But late-stage investors, who paid high valuations for a stake in the hot start-ups, will lose money if the public market values those firms less than they did.
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It is improbable, first, in that his campaign got off to such a terrible start that his resurrection at this late stage, just in time for the Iowa caucuses in January, is a minor psephological miracle.
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The trouble is, most talent-development programmes start at a later stage in people's careers.
South Africa start clear favorites having beaten England four times in the past 11 months, including the pool stage mauling, but White is guarding against complacency.
The title triumph also guarantees Champions League group-stage football next season after suffering the disappointment of crashing out of Europe in qualifying at the start of this term.
At least two army officers are suspected of paying former guerrillas to stage fake bomb plots ahead of the start of Mr Uribe's second term in August, in order to allow the army to foil them.
To make matters worse, Germany is even reluctant to share more sovereignty when it comes to allowing the ECB to start supervising its banks -- in particular its weaker regional lenders known as the Landesbanken - as the first stage in plans to set up a banking union across Europe.
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