Organizations need clear direction, set priorities and performance standards, and clear controls.

组织需要明确的指挥、即定的主次顺序、绩效标准，以及正确的管理。

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The solution—set priorities, add up the annual cost of each item, then consider what else she could buy with the same money.

解决方案是：设定优先顺序，把每件物品的年度成本加起来，然后考虑用同样的钱她还能买到什么。

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End users can set priorities.

最终用户可以设置优先权。

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The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), signed in 1991,expired in December, and President Obama set the goal of achieving a new treaty as one of his major priorities.

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If you have that sort of high-level, this is where we're going, this is the vision, this is the next 30 days and three months and six months and a year maybe, it makes it very, very easy to set priorities and for all of the edges of the company to set their own priorities to do the right thing.

如果你做到这么高水准的内部交流，就与我们的前进方向不谋而合，这就是未来，这是接下来30天,3个月，半年或是1年的前景，这让公司各部门的人,做正确的事,设立工作重点,变得非常容易。

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He made it relatively easy for me to set the priorities, as to where we devote the time, who gets in and who doesn't.

但总统让我相对容易地,设定首要任务，让我知道把事件分配到哪，谁要会见，谁不要。

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In most organization, leaders set priorities and then drive the organization to meet these goals.

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Commissioners would set priorities and budgets, hiring and firing chief constables (supposedly without trespassing on their operational independence).

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The Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) has been set priorities which it will be held to account on.

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