Even as Mr. Obama moved closer to making history as the first black presidential nominee, he stopped short of declaring victory in the Democratic race, part of a carefully calibrated effort in the remaining weeks of the contest to avoid appearing disrespectful to Mrs. Clinton and alienating her supporters.
"The force of being shamed and beat upon socially was as persuasive for me to stop smoking as the threats to my health... Why is obesity said to be different from smoking?" Callahan continues, "Only a carefully calibrated effort of public social pressure is likely to awaken them to the reality of their condition.
The biggest economies need to carefully calibrate efforts to restrain government deficits and debts without derailing the recovery by cutting off fiscal support too sharply, Mr. Blanchard said.
Campaign officials say they believe they have gotten better at calibrating efforts at making sales pitches for cash while also trying to encourage people to participate in other ways.
Success in China requires a bit of persistence, a bit of flexibility, a bit of creativity, and, as we see in the in-country/cross-border discussion, the ability to calibrate effort to opportunity.
The Israelis will know they've calibrated their efforts correctly when the Palestinians decide that the costs of attacking Israel are too high, and the attacks stop.
And the carefully calibrated American efforts to marshal an international coalition to contain and reverse ISIL's explosion into Iraq and to encourage political transition there are producing successes.
Individual organizations planning or undergoing changes to promote EIDM would benefit from developmental and formative evaluations [ 28, 42] that can offer practical, critical and real-time insights and assessments to inform and/or re-calibrate efforts.
But increasingly, we found that people were flying around the world and simply sharing ideas without always having a strong focus on the bottom line". Only when they calibrated their effort did BP reap benefits from collaboration.
At the time, GE had no ready or consistent way of calibrating marketing efforts across units, markets, or business models, and we couldn't find one in any textbook.
We were inspired by this approach when we built a tool that we use to ask one or two simple questions that can be answered via any device in a few seconds such as, "Has your manager talked to you about your career goals in the last month?" Our aim is to quickly and easily capture employee sentiment so that we can calibrate our efforts to reinforce our culture.
