When standards are strong, employees are confident they can meet the company's challenges.
The results suggest that increased attention should be paid to peak noise levels when standards for nocturnal noise are set.
When standards in the United States lead world developments, domestic companies get opportunities for valuable early-mover advantages.
When standards for reducing airborne pollutants were first introduced, the category of low-emission vehicles, or LEV's, emerged.
It has guided its behaviour when standards have slipped: when the company discovered widespread irregularities in Tata Finance in 2001-02 it blew the whistle on itself.
(It also complains that food costs have gone up, but that was expected when standards were raised and schools were given more money to cope).
Robust success will come only when standards rise, with better quality in everything from homes and cities to schooling and sporting achievements (pitifully low, apart from cricket).
Analysts say most of the hospitals and clinics in the Gulf council countries were set up in the 1970s and 1980s, when standards were lower.
"I have found that students generally rise to the occasion when standards are set high and discussions are respectful and thought-provoking," she says.
We found class sizes of 30 performed as well as class sizes of 15, when standards of student behavior had been addressed first.
The art is in knowing when standards will accelerate innovation, as Ethernet and DNS surely did for the Internet above them.
