Studies consistently show that people with clear goals outperform people with vague aspirations like "do a good job". By setting targets, people can manage their feelings more easily and achieve progress with their learning.
Simulation results show that the proposed schemes meet our design goals and outperform the static-reservation and cell-reservation schemes.
Caterpillar offered a robust outlook for sales and revenue through 2012, based in part on expected growth infrastructure investment in emerging markets, while GE released its annual report ahead of its upcoming shareholders meeting and CEO Jeff Immelt Jeff Immelt said the conglomerate expects to hit its 2008 financial goals and outperform the S&P 500.
Occasionally, you get a résumé from someone in the business who says he's outperformed his business-plan goals every year for 25 years.
Deutsche Bank upgraded the stock to a buy, raising its price target to $255 a share, and Keefe Bruyette Woods also upgraded its rating to outperform, increasing its price goal to $240 a share from $185.
As compared with conventional optimization techniques like genetic algorithm (GA), simulated annealing (SA), particle swarm optimization (PSO) and its variant NPSO, NPSOWM outperforms with the goal of maximum SLL suppression.
Fugu is still in its funding stage on Kickstarter, though it has already outperformed its initial goal of $50,000.
Like elite athletes, great salespeople continually push themselves to meet increasingly ambitious goals, aiming to outperform the numbers they put up in previous months, quarters or years.
Learners with performance goal orientation strive to outperform others and demonstrate their abilities, whereas learners with mastery goal orientation strive to develop their skills.
Unlike high-profile activist hedge funds, which attempt to outperform the market, the primary goal of passive investors is to deliver returns that match a market index.
Its goal is to outperform the MSCI All World Index, an index of global stock funds — it has done so by 1.5 percentage points over the last five years — but to do so with half the volatility.
