Sentences with phrase «who drive performance»

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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.

«We are a performance - based company driven through the lens of humanity,» Schultz told the cheering crowd of shareholders and employees who had waited in line for hours to hear the Starbucks leader speak.

«Michael Medline is an outstanding Canadian retailer who brings a passion for the customer experience and a proven ability to drive strong operating and financial performance within national organizations and across multiple brands,» Empire Chair James Dickson said in a press release Thursday afternoon.

â $ This service benefits those who would end up buying a high - performance car after getting their driving license.

We chuckle knowingly over the man who complained about the performance of his new powerboat, only to have the marina staff discover that he'd launched the boat without taking it off the trailer, or the woman who mistook the CD - ROM drive on her...

Senior Peter Schoemann missed three of four from the stripe with 21 seconds left and Dublin miraculously tied the game with a clutch performance from JoJo McGlaston, who drove to the basket at will down the stretch and finished with a game - high 35 points.

The CEA Study Abroad Performance of the Night certainly went to Garrison Sanipass who was 4 for 4 and hit THREE Home Runs (and drove in 7).

I can't think of one other top forward who can put so much drive and harassment into every performance.

Those who believe driving performance with a kind of abuse is fine, because performance is the most important thing.

Song for me was brilliant yesterday, when all around him were panicking and losing possession he stayed focused on his own game, at one stage making a great forward run and cleverly winning a corner off the defender, thats what we need, when the chips are down a guy who WANTS to make something happen and shows the drive and initiative to succeed because we were heading toward another inept performance at home when we needed to show up and win... Im really liking what Im seeing from him this season, hes a leader.....

This time, with Sabini weakened by his poor performance in 2006 and a subsequent drunk driving arrest, the Queens Democratic Party dumped him in favor of Monserrate, who was easily elected in the general election.

The Woodstock Town Board will have to balance the need for peace and quiet with encouraging live performances as it drafts a new noise ordinance, a point driven home by many musicians who attended a public hearing on March 20.

The Woodstock Town Board will have to balance the need for peace and quiet with encouraging live performances as it drafts a new noise ordinance, a point driven home by many musicians who attended a recent public hearing.

However, the abuse of the drug is on the rise especially among especially the youth who rely on the product to enhance their sexual drive, prolong ejaculation and enhance performance.

As the owner and founder of Gr8ful, Inc., Jennifer Newman is a cosmetic chemist who specializes in performance driven, all natural, vegan, cruelty free skincare.

And it's not just weightlifters who care... it's men of all ages when faced with slow gains, low sex drive, poor sexual performance, increased body fat and increased fatigue.

Puttnam, who worked with him on Midnight Express, intended to use electronic music as a counterpoint to the traditional songs of the period, setting Abrahams» performance in HMS Pinafore against the synth - driven montage of Liddell running over the Scottish hills.

In June 1996, the LAPD arrested the actor (who had already spent time in three rehabilitation facilities between 1987 and 1996) on counts including drug use, driving under the influence, possession of a concealed weapon, and possession of illegal substances, a development which struck many as ironic, given his star - making performance years prior in Less than Zero.

From Mark Wahlberg's controlled verbal outbursts to Martin Sheen's earnestness to Alec Baldwin's schizoid vulgarities to Leonardo Di Caprio's compassionate toughness to Ray Winstone's quasi immobile fierceness to Jack Nicholson's beautifully pure excess, The Departed is indeed an performance - driven, fast - paced comedy of expertly timed thrills (or comedic thriller, depending on your point of view) peppered with several instances of acrobatic verbal witticisms, and topped with enough generic clichés and predictable screw - turns to make it palatable for all audiences (yes, even those who paid money to see Ashton Kutcher and Kevin Costner's The Guardian).

This is a major focus of Stronger, director David Gordon Green's gritty, performance - driven drama about Boston marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman, who was immortalized in the media as the dizzied man being wheeled out of the area with his legs blown off, and who later helped the police identify one of the bombers from his hospital bed.

Rating: 5/10 — a man (Lowery) drives across country after the death of his brother and gives a lift to a woman (Lane) who tricks him into being the getaway driver in a bank robbery, a situation that sees him on the run from the police but determined to prove his innocence; a gritty, hard - boiled film noir, They Made Me a Killer adds enough incident to its basic plot to keep viewers entertained from start to finish without really adding anything new or overly impressive to the mix, but it does have a brash performance from Lowery, and Thomas's direction ensures it's another solid effort from Paramount's B - movie unit, Pine - Thomas.

This year saw her starring opposite Ryan Gosling in Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive and earning praise for her bold performance in Steve McQueen's Shame, and she's currently at work playing the ultimate girl who got away in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby.

For a film driven by male performances, it's the women who steal the show of this film.

It was a bleak, dystopian tale driven by the performances of its stars, perhaps most notably Hollywood newcomer Dafne Keen, who helped bring Laura / X -23 to life on the big screen.

Those who've seen it will know the character was the inspiration for Nicolas Winding - Refn's outstanding DRIVE, with that brutal, but profound performance by Ryan Gosling.

Foster's performance as the panic - driven author who learns to live the life she's only imagined and Butler's duel roles as dad and champion are both engaging.

«Bound by Debt» is stunningly driven by its use of realistic action sequences, gripping performances by the real life martial artists who were cast in the supporting roles and the alluring camaraderie between the main actors, particularly Paul, Ciasulli, Frantzeskos and Silva.

Jackman is both sympathetic and compelling as the father driven beyond all reason to find his daughter; Dano shines as the illiterate man - child who may know more than we think, while Gyllenhaal gives his best performance since «Zodiac.»

The other notable performance is that of Davis, who has the unenviable task of playing one of the driving forces behind her family's unhappiness, and in spite of being a relatively small role she brings just enough fragility to Grace to keep the audience from outright hating her.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

This is particularly true of the beautiful mo - cap and voice performance by Steve Zahn (The Good Dinosaur, Knights of Badassdom) that imbues Bad Ape, a solitary chimp zoo survivor whom Caesar encounters, with grand pathos and sweet eager humor: he is a creature — a person — who has been driven a little mad by loneliness and is now overenthusiastic in his enjoyment of new company.

DiCaprio deserves an equal amount of praise, for an actor who just did great work in The Wolf of Wall Street using his natural charm and the public's perception of his own crazy lifestyle to drive the performance.

Other British films screening at the festival include Nicholas Hytner's adaptation of Alan Bennett's hit play The Lady in the Van, with Maggie Smith reprising her much - lauded performance as eccentric homeless woman who lived in Bennett's drive for 15 years.

Strong performances by Phoenix and John Travolta (The Punisher, Basic) will please their fans, but I was especially impressed with the work done by Australian actress Jacinda Barrett (The Human Stain), who gives her role a realistic complexity that drives the scenes of Morrison's home life very well.

«The Crown,» available in all its splendor Friday, qualifies as the epic masterwork from creator / writer Peter Morgan, who has come at the modern Elizabethan era a couple of ways now, most notably with the 2006 film «The Queen,» an intimate rumination on the burdens of royalty in the scandal - driven infotainment era, when an aging Elizabeth (Helen Mirren, in an Oscar - winning performance) fought to comprehend the national grief and dismaying shift in protocol that followed the tragic 1997 death of her ex-daughter-in-law, Diana.

1) Drive - Smooth, alive, aurally and visually stylish, and cast to a fare - thee - well, «Drive» has emotion, style, mood, pulpy violence, and a deep, charismatic performance by Gosling who barely says a word.

This one man performance follows a mentally unbalanced war veteran who becomes so obsessed with an impending dinner appointment with an old friend that it drives him mad.

Driven by honest performances, this movie is for the supernatural - inclined young adult crowd who are at least somewhat familiar with Twilight, etc..

In his career as a performance artist, Shia LaBeouf is currently driving around North America at the mercy of anyone who wants to pick him up.

Buzz has been building around Paterson quickly, especially due to the marvelous central performance by Adam Driver as the titular bus driver who spends his days driving, writing poems, hanging out with his wife (Goldshiftheh Farahani) and dog, and taking walks to the local bar.

Joe Adler's performance as an airhead who claims to have a girlfriend named Athena is effortlessly, amusingly weird, and there are likable digs at student driving, the desperate date quest and Ethan Frome: not bad for a well - intentioned flick about well - intentioned kids who worry too much about disco balls.

Joe is bisexual, and he and Sally have been separated for a year, but they've recently decided to get back together and have a child, and Sally, who's currently shooting a comedy, has been driving her director (Reilly) and costar (Kline) batty with her glum, tragic performance.

A unique, character - driven crime drama with one of the most memorable protagonists in recent years, «Bullhead» is worth seeing just for the amazing transformative performance by star Matthias Schoenaerts, who's virtually unrecognizable under the facial prosthetics and 60 pounds of weight that he reportedly gained for the role.

The twisted, darkly funny, and thrilling picture features a fantastic lead performance by Jake Gyllenhaal as an odd but driven man who starts working as a freelance photographer, taking video of grisly car crashes, break - ins, etc. that he then sells to the local news networks for their morning broadcasts.

The performances from everyone involved are outstanding, especially Firth, who continues to build on an impressive career of layered character driven performances.

Bolstered by another admirable performance by Johnny Depp, Finding Neverland fits into the genre of tales of young boys whose lives are affected for the better through the unconventional tutelage of an older teacher, who drives them to be the best they can be, even through the difficult moments in life.

But I, Tonya features two powerful performances that should continue to drive conversation: those of Robbie, who may be showing us her remarkable power only four years after breaking out in The Wolf of Wall Street, and Allison Janney, who leaps fearlessly into a character as direly unsympathetic as any movie villain, then makes her hilarious.

To those who worry that the compensation afforded to principals and superintendents is not high enough to attract good talent (Thomas B. Fordham Institute and the Broad Foundation, «The Power to Perform,» Forum, Fall 2003), I would refer them to the extensive literature on what drives job satisfaction and performance.

Parents worried that the drive to increase performance on state tests came at the cost of an ever - narrowing curriculum and that the focus on getting the «bubble kids» from slightly below proficient to slightly above proficient came at the cost of teaching kids who were way behind or ahead.

In the end I think I agree with Ashley Jochim who argued: «It may be that government will be more effective at establishing performance floors — much like they do in the arena of auto safety — rather than driving continuous improvement in school quality.»