"Most companies are better at exhorting you to be a great manager, rather than telling you how to be a great manager," Mr. Safferstone says.
The classic response to such worries is simply to exhort voters to do better and to care more.
The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television has ordered film studios and cinemas to better promote the films and has exhorted party cadres to organize group viewings, particularly by rural audiences.
Mr Kadyrov, a former insurgent now backed by Moscow who has been implicated in a number of torture cases and murder inquiries, is Terek's president and its biggest fan, often showing up at training and exhorting players to perform better.
Thus, managers need to recognize that effective operational innovation is more important than simply searching for cost reduction activities and exhorting medical staff for better patient care.
Their leaders exhorted them to do a better job of promoting the need to overhaul Social Security.
His job is to grease the wheels of trade negotiations, broker honestly between warring parties, and generally exhort WTO members to do better and try harder.
He spoke to his colleagues at a closed-door lunch in the Capitol, quoting his mentor, former Senator Mike Mansfield, Democrat of Montana, to exhort the Senate to work better together.
And those automatically enrolled in the pension studied by Ms Madrian and Mr Shea tend to stick with the low, default contribution rate of about 3%.Nannyish governments, not all of them very thrifty themselves, are exhorting the public to do better.
Family-planning boards tracking women's fertility are still a feature in many villages, and a march of roadside banners and painted slogans exhorts local farmers to "Have Fewer, Better Children to Create Prosperity for the Next Generation".
