Russians are often sensitive to outside criticism of their country or comparisons with others, even if they make them themselves.
"They found out how you could make them destroy themselves, " the former official said.
It is also helpful to set up a pay-per-performance compensation plan or start them out as a consultant and make them prove themselves.
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That does not necessarily make them worse for themselves or the world in the long run.
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His ability to motivate people, to make them believe in themselves, was just what this business required.
You come to see them make fun of themselves while simultaneously promoting BH products in auto insurance, underwear, jewelry, cowboy boots, shares of jet airplanes, candy, even bricks.
Stage Four: A and B become so fed up that they decide to replace C with a new sidekick who will make them feel good about themselves.
But if a store can help shoppers find outfits that make them feel better about themselves, for instance, or introduce them to a new device that can change the way they communicate, the store is adding value beyond simply providing merchandise.
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Health Phone provides information for women to help them make healthy decisions for themselves and their families.
Another option: The IRS could sanction the SuperPACs themselves and make them pay tax on those funds they improperly contribute to campaigns.
The toughest practical challenge may be to give the 1, 000 lucky winners of the free flights a great time while ensuring that no pictures of them enjoying themselves make it back home to the disapproving American public.
You must make them part of something bigger than themselves, and let them help to shape and share a role in that greater vision.
These trends will continue and larger companies will benefit from them, unless they themselves make a dramatic mistake.
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No more can Westminster operate in ways reminiscent of the last century where the members make up the rules and operate them among themselves.
They emerged on the other side with a credential that allowed them to make a pretty good living without putting themselves out too much.
We believe people should have the same rights to live securely and make a life for themselves and the community around them.
So we told the automakers that we would give them temporary assistance if they restructured to make themselves competitive for the 21st century.
But whereas most other states concentrate their fire on the tobacco industry, the state's Department of Public Health now believes it is necessary to make targets of the smokers themselves, and get them to quit.
But the Greens' freefall in the polls this weekend, leaves the ruling coalition looking fragile, and the Free Democrats are already positioning themselves to make a move to replace them in the federal coalition following the 2002 general elections.
We should set rules about technology use, make sure kids are clear about how their online actions might affect themselves or others, set good examples for them, and even let them make and learn from their mistakes.
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Banks and other lenders repackaged the mortgage loans into securities and dumped them on investors, freeing themselves up to make even more loans.
That expectation may make them more defensive and more likely to respond with aggression themselves, as we saw in this study and in other studies we have conducted.
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Before that could happen in a useful way, however, cells would have to be given the machinery to make the ingredients themselves, rather than being spoon-fed them, as Dr Hirao and Dr Yokoyama have done.
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While billionaires can afford to hire scores of people to manage their affairs, they may still have to make all the important decisions themselves, decisions that could keep them up in the middle of the night.
The Wii was designed, in some respects, to bring gaming out of the basement and into the living room to make it more acceptable to parents, many of them retired gamers themselves, and to reach more eyeballs and thumbs.
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.
Such countries can now legally make generic drugs themselves, but they are usually forbidden to import them, and not just for bad reasons: it is absurd to expect drug companies to forgo profits from the products they have developed.
At which point, capitalists will compete among themselves for access to the labour that allows them to make profits.
Employees who represent true tier-one talent see themselves as part of the team seeking to make those around them more successful.
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The great thing for small exporters is that their customers seek them out, pay on the spot and often make the shipping arrangements themselves.
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