Beneath the haze of recrimination, it also seems clear that, as the inspectorate concluded, the contract did not contain adequate provision for resolving disagreements over performance standards, or for taking remedial action.

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These roles can easily be flipped to Outcome Creator, Insight Creator, or Action Creator to increase results and performance, reduce stress, improve relationships.

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Performance-based ads, those seeking to elicit an immediate purchase or other action, remain dominant, and even gained ground over more brand-oriented ads.

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Once this is done, and only once it is done, does it make sense to think about action items such as making work more interesting, providing more job security, or rewarding performance with bonus plans?

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