Sentences with phrase «narrowly focused goals»

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Those commissions were often criticized as being too closely controlled by the mayor and too narrowly focused — sometimes with the goal of pushing pet projects or political initiatives or seeking policy changes that would have been more appropriately handled as legislation by the City Council.

In addition, in some nations education goals have focused very narrowly on the development of skills that are presumed to contribute to national economic competitiveness, the formation of national identity, and local relevance, without sufficient attention to the development of the skills that contribute to effective citizenship and global citizenship.

Promoting small schools, they grumble, is a goal too narrowly focused on raising test scores and too insensitive to the communitarian roots of the preexisting small - schools movement.

-- Focus just on the end goal keeps you too narrowly focused, may not allow you to see alternatives for the process.

This is hard to answer with absolute specifics, so focus on general career objectives rather than job titles and narrowly - defined goals.