In short, focus on operational excellence to be really fast and cheap.
When revenues are down, it is natural to focus on short-term strategies that eliminate costs, yet an internal focus can debilitate your business down the line.
The Buffetts of the world believe these company earnings forecasts accentuate a short-term focus.
Investors with a short-term focus are likely wondering whether they can afford a vacation this summer.
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Audit Scotland said the need for boards to break even each year encouraged a short-term focus on spending.
"It's easy to get a very short-term focus because of the opportunity that is right in front of us, " he says.
When I think of someone with short-term focus, I remember this song.
We must overcome an institutional fear of failure and short-term focus, whereby investors write their exit strategy first and support plan second.
And you made a distinction between the short-term focus on jobs and then the medium-term focus on getting the fiscal house in order.
By then it will be time to focus short-term again on the next monthly economic reports, from the housing industry, consumer confidence, and employment reports.
Sadly, they have been herded into the short-term focus on quarter by quarter performance as they compete for ratings on managing other peoples money.
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In short, the focus of Los Cabos will be supporting growth and ensuring our European partners are escalating their response to reinforce financial stability, recognizing the stakes are high for all of us.
The short-run focus of most Department of Energy funding misses the main strategic imperative: We need alternatives that can scale to significance long-term without subsidies, and we need a lot more North American oil and gas in the meantime.
The dedicated deep-value players are your Warren Buffett types, the avid followers of the Oracle of Omaha whose Berkshire Hathaway (BRKB) invests primarily in unloved but asset-rich companies, whose stocks are depressed either because they are misunderstood or ignored by impatient investors with a short-term focus.
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Instead, such lenders should focus on short-term, documented trade transactions and classic project finance.
We do not intend to compromise our user focus for short-term economic gain.
Arty photo effects that use selective focus and short depth of field are actually closer to the truth of the eye.
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In the document former Institute of Directors boss Sir George Cox said overcoming a focus on short-term gains was the only way to ensure success.
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One possibility is that these various C suite job proposals are bandages on the root cause of the problem, namely, a focus on short-term financial goals.
Unlike many rivals, which often focus on short-term results and oil-price movements, Exxon invests in or walks away from projects based on long-term returns on capital assuming moderate oil prices.
Mr Summers wants the Fund to focus on short-term crisis management, and to avoid being a low-cost source of money for countries with ready access to private capital.
Because Wall St. often rewards cost cutting measures with a temporary bump in stock price, fiscally conservative CEOs tend to focus on short-term benefits for all the wrong reasons.
"The focus on short-run challenges may lead to stock price declines and ultimately create a very interesting buying opportunity for the shares at a later date, " Morningstar said in a research note.
Investors are going to have to shorten their focus to short-term and intermediate-term trading rather than long-term buy and hold if they want to make profits in this type of trader-controlled market.
He is forgoing Ironman races to focus on short course racing again in hopes of qualifying for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London (an Olympic distance triathlon is about one-quarter the distance of an Ironman).
John Gunn, head of AIMS, said it was difficult to stop the storms and bleaching but researchers could focus their short-term efforts on the crown-of-thorns starfish, which feasts on coral polyps and can devastate reef cover.
Petter Osmundsen, a petroleum economist who teaches at Stavanger University in Norway, suggests another: excessive focus on short-term measures of financial performance, which discouraged firms from making long-term bets on growth and encouraged them to dish out their profits to shareholders instead in the form of increased dividends and share buybacks.
To help teams focus and move forward, provide or reiterate short- and long-term goals and our focus on our business strategy.
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Similarly, in the short term, we should focus our efforts and resources on becoming more resilient and adaptive.
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