We need to set our goals and monitor our performance.

These are also typically the goals and performance indicators of sales management.

Given that investment banks can only attain high rates of return in a world with volatile asset prices and short term performance goals, companies pressure their managers to follow suit.

Worse still, high levels of public debt, like high taxes, cause serious problems for economic performance.

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is a chemical process used to produce high quality, high performance, solid materials.

Nor has high taxation in the Nordic countries impeded economic performance.

Moreover, hedge fund managers can easily fake high performance without getting caught.

Identifying and negotiating goals at the beginning of a reporting period allows managers to measure performance against predetermined goals assignments at the end of a reporting period.

In 2008, he trained at the Center for High Performance San Cugat (Barcelona).

She graduated from Millburn High School, where she participated in many school plays her high school performance as Winnifred in Once Upon a Mattress gained her a Paper Mill Playhouse Rising Star Award nomination for Best Performance by a High School Actress.

So it should be possible to extract valuable elements like lithium for high performance batteries.

The PIIGS debt burden is so high that robust economic performance is next to impossible.

Achieving high performance involves integrated, whole building design, involving many components, not one single technology.

Resolution on preparations for the high level summit on the Millennium Development Goals

Presentation on the Second High Level Forum on the Health Millennium Development Goals

Recognizing the high professional and personal qualities he brought to the performance of his duties and responsibilities,

A one size fits all approach is inadequate in today's world and simply does not account for different starting points, missions and performance goals.

When oil prices were high and growing, the government could compensate for poor performance by throwing money at problems.

In order to sustain high performance levels, sufficient time and resources must be secured on a more permanent basis.

From a European perspective, the hunger for dividends and the emphasis on short term performance goals that characterize these institutions is both amazing and frightening.

The Millennium Development Goals placed high priority on the mobilization of all efforts aimed at poverty eradication.

Implementation of these evolving social goals through local government agencies by specific officials is a daunting task that requires profound changes in roles and performance metrics.

This reality has led the High Commissioner's Special Adviser on the Millennium Development Goals, Phillip Alston, to conclude that human rights and the Goals are like ships passing in the night .

Because the Millennium Development Goals focus on children, issues relating to children are now high on the international agenda.

The High Commissioner's Special Adviser on the Goals represented the Office on the Millennium Project Task Force 1, and produced a report entitled A Human Rights Perspective on The Millennium Development Goals .

A personal supercomputer (PSC) is a high performance computer system with capabilities and costs between those of standard personal computers and supercomputers.

Over the next 10 years it would focus on the development of large capacity, high performance and long life broadcast communication satellites.

The Department of Management was requested to review methods of performance assessments used in other comparable organizations, with a view to preparing proposals for a set of qualitative and quantitative performance indicators covering both programmatic and managerial functions that would enable a high level evaluation of a senior manager's performance.

Any of you who rode the automobiles was it yesterday? at the track, you know the romance revolving around those high performance cars.

Three The secret to high performance isn't rewards and punishments, but that unseen intrinsic drive the drive to do things for their own sake.

And this pathetic performance comes at a time when many African economies agricultural sectors are booming on the back of high world food prices.

The advantages of certification include its potential clearly to distinguish those companies that have achieved high levels of performance (as defined by the standards).

Tonga's performance on the Human Development Index and the Human Poverty Index reflects a high level of expenditure in health and education, stagnant population growth and sustained high levels of investment in the social sector.

Our current growth rates are not sufficient to achieve the Development Goals because of, for example, the high rates of population growth.

Sri Lanka accorded high priority to the implementation of Agenda 21 and the Millennium Development Goals, including target 7 on environmental sustainability.

The Secretariat might also pursue the improvements the External Auditor had suggested in relation to performance management and appraisal in terms of identifying and negotiating goals, job descriptions and reporting cycles.

So we had one group that I hoped their performance would be very high, another group that I thought their performance would be very low, and when I got the results, that's what we got I was very happy aside from one person.

(b) The high level dialogue should have a strong focus on policy issues, including the challenge of achieving the internationally agreed development goals

UNHCR's Global Objectives and Indicators of Progress for 2004 were based on the strategic goals established by the High Commissioner for the year.

High oil prices are set to dampen economic performance in the rest of the world as well, although growth prospects look better than in the US.

In firms with a high CEO pay slice, the probability of a CEO turnover after bad performance (controlling for the CEO s length of service) is lower.

Specific policy instruments that can be considered include incentives, performance requirements, investment targeting, and the provision of public goods (notably low cost and high quality infrastructure).

Its latest project, a labelling programme for mobile phones, focuses on high standards for communication, visual and ergonomic factors and for low emission and ecological performance.

We meet in the wake of the High level Plenary Meeting, where bold decisions were made to promote implementation of the Millennium Development Goals.

A major achievement of the High level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly had been the strong commitment to attaining the Millennium Development Goals.