Optimizing return on capital will generate less growth than optimizing return on education.
If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them.
I don't objectify women. I'd like to think that I'm optimizing their hardware.
Much of our brainpower goes unused, and many people could benefit greatly from optimizing their mental assets.
I don't have a gender thesis. I am truly optimizing for the right person for the task, whether that means running a company or working on my team.
Over the last 20 years, I've worked on or invested in many companies that scaled to 100 million users or more. But here's the thing: You don't start with 100 million users. You start with a few. So, stop thinking big, and start thinking small.
If New Hampshire is going to be serious about optimizing our energy system, we must have a siting process that is fair, predictable, and communicative.
While introducing AI into the government will save money through optimizing processes, it should also be deployed to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse.
Often I forget that design is really about removing things: optimizing the flow of information, the display, so there are the fewest elements possible, but still they preserve the essence of the subject.
Whether Amazon is good at making and sustaining an entertainment business remains to be seen. But they certainly are 100% focused every day on optimizing the consumer experience and reducing friction.
If the goal is to build companies that maximize long-term equity value, then optimizing corporate performance in a way that Wall Street appreciates is obviously critical to that goal.
After formulating and communicating the right strategy and optimizing operations to execute that strategy, CEOs and other top leaders then must be able to build management teams that truly understand the big picture.
Anybody who's ever been in a large organization realizes that 'optimizing' is not a word that would often be used to describe any large organization. The reason is that it's full of people, who are complicated.
For me, it's about optimizing health. It's about lifestyle and longevity. Then you think about what vegetarian diets can do for the mass population, in terms of lower consumption of resources. When you look at the numbers, it's pretty staggering.
Culturally, I think we have operated as if we had the formula figured out, and it was all about optimizing, in its various constituent parts, the formula. Now it is about discovering the new formula.
Good website practice and optimizing for conversion usually makes for good search engine optimization. These work together to ensure you drive quality traffic and can persuade that traffic to help you meet your business goals.