Managers in these calls spent less time than managers in ineffective calls discussing competitive position, pricing issues, and the economy at large.
Interestingly, effective calls contained more negative words (abandon, abolish, and so on) than ineffective calls did remember, all these calls followed a disappointing quarter—and had fewer vacuously reassuring expressions.
We divided the sample into effective and ineffective calls, defining an effective call as one that created buzz and triggered an unusually high volume of trade or, better yet, drove an increase in stock price.
In the letter, the group criticized Madison's community policing efforts as ineffective, called for vast reforms to the local criminal justice system and outlined its preferred form of policing in minority neighborhoods: None whatsoever.
Zeman called them "ineffective," Babis called them "nonsense" and Fico called them "pointless". Later, they shifted their rhetoric, and began to point to the refugee crisis and radical Islam as the "real" threats to Europe.
Calling for civil discourse in this environment is as ineffective as calling for moderate gun control after mass shootings.
"Very small and ineffective," he called it, and, more to the point, "nothing for America".
Antibiotic resistance by the pathogenic microorganism renders drug ineffective and calls for improved designing and development of new drugs.
The report said that investigation had been ineffective and called for it to be passed to the federal attorney general's office.
But the administration, wedded to an ineffective approach called "strategic patience," also needs to look for ways to re-engage North Korea.
