Type A behavior tends to go hand in hand with perfectionism and workaholism -- characteristics that are closely tied together and generally driven by a goal-oriented mindset and intense drive to succeed.
But above all, he is a manager driven by a single goal: to win.
In the OxyContin case, Mr. Giuliani's supporters suggest that as a cancer survivor himself, he was driven by a noble goal: to keep the company's proven pain reliever available to the widest circle of sufferers.
Even if they disagreed about the nuclear program and relations with the outside world, however, reformers and hard-liners are driven by a shared goal of survival, experts said.
Whether working backwards or looking ahead, it's clear the two companies are driven by a common goal: to keep their customers at the center of everything they do as they continue to move forward into a future that, in Ames' words, can often resemble the stuff of science fiction.
Mark, Ram and George are driven by a common goal to "make the world a safer place for people to compute".
Margaret Anderson is the executive director of FasterCures, a Washington DC-based center of the Milken Institute, which is driven by a singular goal – to save lives by speeding up and improving the medical research system.
This is evident from the numerous existing frailty measures which were driven by a common goal of reducing the burden of suffering that frailty entails - hospitalisation [ 1, 2], falls [ 2- 4], institutionalisation [ 5, 6] and death [ 1- 3, 5- 9].
First, the task is driven by an underlying goal that does not emphasize the required visuomotor transformation: In order for participants to correctly identify the presented object, they must move the window into an area of interest, but this transformation is not highlighted as the primary focus of the task.
Thus, feeding practices driven by an approach goal seem to accentuate healthy eating, but at the same time the attenuation of unhealthy eating appears to be a pleasant side effect.
In GMIT, I assumed his pointing out of intersting mathematical operations was not driven by any goal other than to "decompose" the music.
