They pledge to hit target numbers for, say, increasing company margins, improving service levels, or cutting costs.
For example, recruiters are incented to hit target numbers, drill sergeants are incented to get service members through basic training, commanders are incented to keep people in their units, and out-processors are incented to ensure service members are smoothly and efficiently separated from active duty.
Evidence of that gulf can be found in Baton Rogue, Louisiana, where IBM has failed to hit target hiring numbers since it moved into the region in search of growth potential in 2013.
But cycle campaigners say "tough decisions" need to be made if the region's major cities are to hit targets for increasing the number of trips made by bike.
The latter also covers companies far smaller than those listed in the FTSE 350, possibly the top 650 companies in the UK". In other words, the danger of concentrating on hitting targets and numbers is that you do not always record the ones that fall away while you record the ones who get appointed.
But the planners of Euro Disney assumed that they could hit their target number of visitors even if they started out with an admission price of more than $40 per adult.
If the costs of further GHG reductions have dropped to near zero — as reflected in the low price of permits — then we should do more of it, since we know in reality that the benefits of further reduction don't suddenly drop to zero when we hit some target number.
Nobody -- nobody -- predicted that even with such a disastrous launch the program would still hit its target number for the first year.
You have to pay the higher fee, rather, if you don't hit your target number, but you get to keep your funds and they still go toward making your movie -- which at this point, everything goes on the screen, and anything that we can make helps us to do it in the way that we're trying to do.
Other new recommendations, from the Virgin Money boss, Jayne-Anne Gadhia, who is leading a government-backed review, include linking the bonuses of City executives to hitting targets for the number of senior women appointed at a firm.
Leading the government-backed review, Jayne-Anne Gadhia, the chief executive of Virgin Money, recommended the bonuses of City executives be linked to hitting targets for the number of senior women appointed at a firm.
