Too often directors don't have enough skin in the game to push the company in a strong direction.
Some faculty members have questioned whether, as Chancellor, he would be a puppet of the board instead of providing a strong direction for the university.
There was an uncertain move into shiny plasticized patent pieces, but they underscored the feeling that the show lacked a strong direction.
Shimmer Last season, the designers Tommaso Aquilano and Roberto Rimondi turned the flower prints and bright colors of the 1970s into a collection with a strong direction and a refined playfulness.
In response, Cummings used her new role at the National Commissioning Board, the body that now runs the NHS in England following the radical reorganisation of the health service earlier this year, to devise a strategy designed to set a strong direction for nursing, and to improve patient care.
The best leaders take these changes in stride, knowing that remaining calm and leading with a strong direction can save the day.
The legs of the merged-type fixing device increase the tensile reinforcement ratio by 0.40%, creating a strong direction and a weak direction, relative to one another.
It also heralded a strong direction for Alfa Romeo (and in some ways, for Enzo Ferrari, whose racing team used Alfas throughout the 1930s).
As more emphasis is placed on cleaner production and controlling air pollution, cleaner utilization of coal is a strong direction of future development.
The model has provided a strong direction on how to optimize the SOFC exergy and energy efficiency, by reducing the anode diffusion overpotential, which is affected by various material parameters and operating conditions.
As an owner, AOL has never given much of a strong direction to the products, at a time when other digital music companies have been building up audiences and evolving technologies (although, as we pointed out earlier this week when writing about Rdio layoffs, the digital music business is tough).
