As little as ten minutes of play can yield enough data to predict performance, says Mr Halfteck.
Chalk it up to a rare combination of personality and performance, says Scott Minto, director of the Sports MBA program at San Diego State University.
Certainly the Volt will have to prove itself by demonstrating good quality over years of performance, says David Champion, senior director of Consumer Reports' auto test division.
It basically looks at a single student's prior performance and says: This student, amongst his peers at this grade level, was in the - let's say 60th percentile.
So when a manager says performance will suffer if the fund imposes some limitation on commissions, pensions listen.
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However Dr Atul Gawande, author of "Better - a surgeon's notes on performance", says his intuitive diagnosis saved a woman's life.
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Also, in a land where sex and age still largely determine status, the only criterion for pay and promotion is performance, Shigeta says.
GM's backing "gave us a lot of headroom, "but EDS became too dependent on it and failed to throttle costs and measure executive performance, he says.
GM's backing "gave us a lot of headroom, "but EDS became much too dependent on it and failed to throttle costs and measure executive performance, he says.
"For whatever reason, there's a predictable pattern where September has bad performance, " says Steven DeSanctis a strategist with Bank of America Merrill Lynch's equity research team.
"What we found was that it is critical for competitive advantage and companies are seeing this as a way to improve their performance, " says Cynthia Figge, co-founder of Ekos International.
"When we can stress the personal identity of people, and let them bring more of themselves at work, they are more satisfied with their job and have better performance, " says Francesca Gino, an associate professor at Harvard Business School who has studied onboarding.
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"I felt like I had gone above and beyond with my performance, " she says.
Chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw says the performance gap between some areas is "completely unacceptable".
Ospreys elite performance director Andrew Hore says the cause of Henson's groin and ankle problems are a mystery.
Performance is enhanced, says the firm, and carbon-dioxide emissions are cut by 35%.
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"Every time a team plays Leeds, they see it as a cup final and will up their performance levels, " says Ritchie.
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Johnson has been linked with the newly-created role of Welsh Rugby Union elite performance director, but says he has not been offered the post.
"We are doing it from a performance standpoint, " says Mr. Barr.
Managers use those notes when compiling quarterly performance reviews, he says.
"Applied Materials has pay-for-performance practices that align a significant majority of executive compensation with robust performance objectives, " says Mary Humiston, senior vice president, global human resources.
For instance, Ross Wolfe, financial adviser with Altfest Personal Wealth Management in New York, says the performance of Yacktman Focused is why his clients like it.
By contrast, Ms. Lallos says the performance of JPMorgan U.S. Large Cap Core Plus has been "thoroughly middling, " and she doesn't feel it justifies the high fee.
"You can't pay the bills with relative performance, " he says.
"Some of the skills required to operate were impaired in the study, but it is difficult to say with certainty how this would translate into real clinical performance, " she says.
But on this point Iannelli is not convinced: "At the moment, solar panels are not fit for purpose in the UAE ... the dust and the sand in the atmosphere prevent (sun) rays from hitting the panels efficiently ... and the high temperatures also reduce performance, " he says.
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Measures of past performance matter, too, says Molitor, but "they're not really predictive" because there's so much randomness in past returns.
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