Sentences with phrase «by focusing on performance»

Chart 2 below at right illustrates this by focusing on the performance of SMI's Upgrading strategy during the late 1990s and early 2000s, including the bear market of 2000 - 2002, with the S&P 500 also shown for reference.

Finally, and importantly, many district leaders are using Common Core implementation to innovate their assessment strategies by focusing on performance assessment.

Like previous RM models, the design of the RM16 is determined by its focus on performance: form follows function with styling optimized for aerodynamics.

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While conducting research for their book, The Mind of the Leader, Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter interviewed more than 1,000 leaders and found that practicing mindfulness, meaning a focus on the present, achieved by meditation and other techniques, helped those leaders engage with their employees, create better connections and improve company performance.

The 2016 Global Innovation Index, which is an annual ranking of the innovation capabilities and performance of economies around the world, focuses on national policies, but it's individual leaders who can make a difference by driving innovation within organizations and creating a conducive environment for innovation to thrive.

Joint research by Harvard Business Review Analytics and EY's Beacon Institute shows that companies focusing on purpose to drive performance see higher profitability.

Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi's research is focused on these flow states that optimize our performance by finding that balance between challenge and skill.

Ridge describes how a focus on the servant leadership principles of values, learning, teaching, growth, and community can lead to enhanced performance by helping people step into the best version of themselves.

This means that when they step into management jobs, they already focused on managing by performance and achievement rather than face time, because they've never lived in a world where butt - in - seat time was the way lots of people managed.

The transition from a radical regime guided by a utopian ideology to a pragmatic one with a laser - like focus on maintaining power by delivering superior economic performance is one of the main drivers for how China has managed to engineer an economic revolution since the late 1970s.

People «are daunted by the task and believe it requires inauthentic, uncomfortable behavior and is an activity that is inconsistent with focusing on job performance,» says Jeffrey Pfeffer, a Stanford professor of organizational behavior, who covers the subject of networking as part of his Paths to Power elective course.

Luke argues InteraXon's technology can prevent accidents from happening by identifying changes in cognitive performance early on and alerting drivers when they lose focus.

There are important lessons in these changes for those of us who are focused on and measured by our performance and by the results we achieve.

By focussing on the software and driver experience over the vehicle's physical performance, Breitfeld hopes to avoid repeating the same mistakes as Faraday Future — an electric car company that has run into financial difficulties after unveiling its FF91 vehicle at CES last year.

Sustainable and long — lasting change starts with building a better identity, not by focusing on results like your performance or your appearance.

We believe our long - term performance is enhanced through an equity ownership culture by our executive officers since it encourages a focus on the long - term performance of our company.

«RBC GAM's investment approach is characterized by fundamental research and rigorous discipline, along with a focus on risk management and portfolio construction, all within a team - oriented structure,» said Dan Chornous, chief investment officer, RBC Global Asset Management Inc. «Habib and his team fit seamlessly with our approach, as demonstrated by their strong investment results and stability of returns, with notably solid performance in down markets.»

Palmer managed a pooled fund, which focused on Canadian small - capitalization companies, from its inception to August 2007, achieving returns of 35.8 % annualized over a nine - year period, which ranked it No. 1 in performance by a major fund ranking service in its small - cap, pooled - fund category.

The focus of SASAC - supervised SOEs is on near and long term profitability as reflected by the predominance of financial criteria in assessing performance».

We focus on gross compound annual growth rate (CAGR), gross maximum drawdown (MaxDD) and rough gross annual Sharpe ratio (average annual return divided by standard deviation of annual returns) as key performance statistics for the Top 1, equally weighted (EW) Top 2 and EW Top 3 portfolios of monthly winners.

By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all forms of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those of us graduating with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would focus our attention on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the cultural turn in our discipline to other studies of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods of research and instruction in whatever parts of the university we found ourselves.

That, says Dr. Southgate, is because the issue is focused on HIV / AIDS, and she asks readers to consider the «incalculable loss» from the disease --» the loss to all those whose lives would have been touched, even changed, but were not, by books not read because they were never written, by paintings not seen because they were never painted, by performances never heard because the song was not sung.»

By refining its focus on «performance» as both cultural and aesthetic phenomena, the discipline formerly named «oral interpretation» has employed dramatistic and theatrical metaphors to broaden definitions of «texts,» «speakers,» «audiences,» and «events» (or sites) in the study of performance activity.

the increasing focus on continual improvement approaches (also supported by an ISEAL Task Force) shows the way for stepwise improvement pathways that could see enterprises that meet entry level requirements in regional approaches move up to certification performance levels over time.

By focusing on innovation and R&D, Danafilms is continuously improving the cost effectiveness and performance of its products and processes — orders are delivered with exact specifications on time, every time.

The 2017 - 2022 Strategic Plan, delivered by APCO, focuses the work of the Covenant on improving resource efficiency through sustainable packaging design, diverting packaging from landfill through consumer education and packaging disposal labelling, and improving packaging sustainability performance through research and sharing of knowledge across industries.

By working together, member companies focus on improving compliance performance while avoiding duplication of social compliance audits.

Arsenal was given one of the weakest team in this CL competition.Everybody expected a win, like by big margin but the whole match there was no fight and desire.The game was so poor at all front last night.City and Man Utd played their hearts out even though they were defeated.Man Utd players witnessed a horrific injury to their team mate, that will affect their focus and rhythm but they fought with desire to win the game till the end.City were the better team than Juventus, they played really good.I have even read an article on Sky that states even though Man utd and City is defeated they still can qualify the group stage, thats how their performance were reassuring.But Arsenal were really poor from starting the game till end.Zagreb got their first win in CL since 1999, that says it all.

Sadly, we can't imagine social media channels and supporters will be discussing his promising performance too heavily by Tuesday, and will instead be focussing on this gaffe.

I'm focusing on Arsenal's performance because that's my team, I was not impressed by our first half performance when we had our full quota of players it just seemed as if we were content with a draw!

I was pleased with my performance but need to focus on being more consistent, by avoiding long breaks in my training which causes my fitness levels to drop.

This Competitive Performance class takes kids to the next level of training by focusing on progressing and maintaining athletic movement.

I just wan na say that i was appalled by our performance on the weekend i got up at 5.30 am to see our boys misplacing passes, no rhythm, no focus in attack it was truly not an accident.

The recent indifferent run by the Blues and the resultant media focus on Pep's performance are the anxieties that will gnaw away at my confidence and create growing pre-match-tension as kick - off approaches.

Manager Louis van Gaal really should have praised the performance of Juan Mata against Wolfsburg but instead he focused on criticizing the versatile attacker by claiming that he could have done better (ESPN).

In contrast, parents who value a performance orientation, focus on their student's achievement as mainly measured by grades and test scores — the need to score better than others in order to succeed.

By focusing on the effort they put into their performance instead of the outcome, you can help your athlete learn from failure and give them a sense of control over how they perform.

By focusing on their own plan, realizing the relative non-importance of testing, remembering their past performance and practicing deep breathing, your child will learn to control her test anxiety.

The PEARL Awards Nigeria, endorsed by the Securities and Exchange Commission is one of Nigeria's foremost award recognition bodies, focused on rewarding corporate excellence in local institutions and promoting healthy competitiveness amongst quoted companies through growth, diversification and innovation; ultimately leading to improved performance on the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

«Saint - Gobain Performance Plastics remains fully committed to working closely with local, state and federal officials, with a shared focus on ensuring that the people of Hoosick Falls have drinking water that meets or exceeds current advisories set by E.P.A. and New York,» the one - page statement said.

He has focused in particular on how to reform politics by devolving power to local constituencies through referendums on important issues and on recalling votes for citizens who are unhappy with the performance of MPs and other elected officials.

Our brains generate the same reward signals when we conquer any challenge, big or small, so I take on smaller challenges outside of work.2 My daily physical workouts are diverse — running, yoga, Pilates, strength training — and I progress by focusing on today's form and peak performance.

«Future IQ assessments of individuals with OCD should focus on verbal and not performance IQ — a score heavily influenced by slowness,» the researchers say.

Fisker, a U.S. start - up focusing on the creation of high performance, energy efficient vehicles, plans to sell an $ 80,000 plug - in hybrid sports car by late 2009.

Yang's team is continuing its research by focusing on the best way to scale up the fabrication, and further improve its performance so it's possible to split hydrogen from wastewater.

NREL's work was supported by the Energy Department's Vehicle Technology Office under the Battery for Advanced Transportation Technologies (BATT) program, which focuses on reducing the cost and improving the performance and durability of the lithium - ion batteries that power electric vehicles.

«Rather than focusing on total numbers of published reports, reviews of academic performance should explicitly take into account the proportion of a researcher's initiated studies (e.g., those receiving ethics approval or funding) that have been reported, for which protocols have been shared, and that have had their dataset reused by other researchers.»

These were the findings of a large - scale study by a research team at the University of Basel that focused on determining the gender - dependent relationship between emotions, memory performance and brain activity.

ESRF - EBS, due for completion in 2022, will focus on the construction of a new storage ring with performances multiplied by 100 for the brilliance and coherence of the X-ray beam.

The SNMMI Future Leaders Academy training focuses on setting a clear plan for increasing leadership abilities by developing the necessary skills and organizational expertise to enhance performance and ultimately evolve into a leader both within the nuclear medicine and molecular imaging community and the society.