But for the last six years, a rhino-protection program that emphasizes better-paid and better-motivated anti-poaching patrols has been a marked success.
Cutting the number of games, and emphasizing better, attractive teams, is a strategy to build ratings.
Its recommendations emphasized better communication among doctors, hospitals and research institutions and resulted in a national network of treatment centers.
Moreover, after years of emphasizing better community relations, most soldiers are now routinely involved in providing services to Afghans.
Mr. Eyler, who declined to be interviewed for this article, made it a point of meeting every store manager and emphasizing better training for employees.
Mr. Whitacre left little doubt that he expected Mr. Akerson to continue emphasizing better sales and marketing as G.M.'s top priority.
In a rare speech specifically addressing relations with Beijing, Mr. Leung said Thursday that he hoped to improve relations by emphasizing better communications between Hong Kong and the mainland.
He emphasized better education, and said that if he were to be judged on one thing, he would want it to be whether the lives of French youth were better in 2017, at the end of the next presidential term.
He also instituted tighter inventory controls, added more exclusive items, teamed up with Amazon.com for Internet sales and emphasized better customer relations from a sales staff that to many shoppers had appeared inexperienced and indifferent.
The Kremlin's foreign policy has recently emphasized better ties with China, as Europe's economy wobbles near recession, a theme last week at the summit meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation organization in Vladivostok.
