Take a distinctive and successful company you've got no idea if the factors that make them distinctive helped them, hindered them, or were completely irrelevant to their success.
These risks, which can only be addressed strategically, include: Taking on a coordination/leadership role at the country level without sufficient resources; The potential organizational merger with other UN Agencies, resulting in a loss of UNICEF's distinctive identity; Helping the RC role achieve greater independence, without generating tensions with other UN system members.
The second is that distinctive art "helps in terms of remembering places," on days when potential buyers might be viewing multiple properties.
Cath Kidston's distinctive florals helped the company sell more than £30m of the stuff last year; Boden's profits are up to £28m; turnover at The White Company reached £100m this year, and so on.
But if its music is everywhere, its band mates are not: in particular, it's been almost a decade since listeners last heard from Agnetha Faltskog, the singer whose distinctive voice helped give Abba its carefree Scandinavian charm.
For him, a distinctive look helped: bold (and presumably inexpensive) two-colour covers by Keith Cunningham may have lacked the cool of Jan Tschichold's Penguin templates, but gave the list a uniform feel.
They certainly have enough tunes – big, jaunty pop songs that manage to sound completely mainstream yet also unlike any other band around (Thomas Mars' distinctive vocals help their case here).
This distinctive feature helps to reduce a wide set of different micromotions describing relaxation/exchange processes to an averaged collective motion, expressed mathematically in a rather general form.
A suburban Chicago man's distinctive tattoo helped police make an easy ID after he was arrested along with his accomplice and both were charged with robbing a Chicago donut shop and convenience store.
Helping these distinctive performers find a mutual groove is the Broadway veteran Susan Stroman, who choreographs and directs.
