This obsession with performance is expressed in aggressive language.
Sir Bruce concluded that an obsession with performance targets obscured the real state of many wards.
The film's story was inspired by what Jean-Pierre called "the obsession with performance and violent competition between workers everywhere in the workplace, in Belgium and elsewhere".
He sees no reason that the company's obsession with "performance," and with exotic materials — novel polyester blends, water-resistant cotton, extra-compressive spandex — should be limited to athletics.
"We have an obsession with performance in our country," says Lawrence Diller, a behavioral pediatrician in Walnut Creek, Calif., and the author of two books on A.D.H.D. "We have a universal performance enhancer in Ritalin.
But he is a perfectionist who tries to do everything as well as he can within the hours of the day.' Just before he goes back into rehearsal, Minghella revisits his current obsession: that performance must never be an accessory, must be more than a garnish to the singing.
Steare argued this was to do with an obsession with performance targets, which meant employees were so busy trying to meet targets they lost track of what was real, although Fraser insisted that keeping an eye on targets could be useful because "there are things people will do if they feel they aren't being watched".
AnandTech is not alone in the benchmark review business; sites including The Tech Report and Tom's Hardware have a similar obsession with performance data, though smaller followings.
Her obsession is for performance, for the ways in which what actors wear helps them create character — inhibiting movement, facilitating it, choreographing the performance with fabric, undergarments, shoes".
Among the first results was confirmation that Google's obsession with academic performance was not always correlated with success at the company.
In a survey of its workers in 2008, France Telecom found that two-thirds of them reported being "stressed out" and a sixth reported being in "distress".A second source of misery is the drive to improve productivity, which is typically accompanied by an obsession with measuring performance.
