Moreover, in any business I know, failure to go out and look at customers and markets, at competitors and their products, is also a major reason for poor, ineffectual, and wrong decisions.
For this reason it was common for school nurses to suggest that parent information session would be ineffectual in affecting vaccine decision-making, stating: "the same faces turn up...parents that have already made their decisions, whereas the hard to reach parents that haven't given it any thought don't turn up.
True, he has traded a trim black suit for this get-up to feign madness, but Mr. Giamatti's doggy-eyed Hamlet seems most naturally at home in the guise of a middle-aged malcontent, sliding into his ineffectual years having made a concerted decision not to make any more decisions.
The president's decision to replace his ineffectual Secretary of War, Simon Cameron, with Edwin Stanton in mid-January did nothing to help Stone's cause.
Instead, he threatened to render the decision on gay marriage ineffectual by using his presidential powers to appoint only conservative justices to the bench who would supposedly interpret the ruling differently.
It's true that the judge's decision looks somewhat glib and ineffectual under the circumstances.
If indeed the impact of the opinion is that Thys must redraft its contracts to achieve the same economic results, the decision is not only wrong, but conspicuously ineffectual.
"The decisions and measures thus far adopted remain ineffectual.
It would be the debt ceiling debate all over again: Even many voters who didn't agree with the Supreme Court's decision would be more inclined to see Obama as ineffectual, out-of-his-depth, a failed leader, etc. … and those kind of perceptions are fatal to an incumbent president.
Walid Abu Sendaa, a 47-year-old local businessman, said he had voted for the Muslim Brotherhood at the parliamentary elections last year but described it as a "terrible decision" with hindsight, claiming the Islamists had proved weak and ineffectual in office.
