Clearing a "key bureaucratic hurdle" last summer, the State Department announced the extension passed environmental reviews.

These implementation principles are essential for leaders to overcome the four key organizational hurdles that can prevent even the best strategies from being executed.

According to Mr. Husni, the key hurdle for a new magazine is four years, since magazines able to make it that long generally endure.

Some analysts have said a key hurdle for Iomega has been whether it can establish its technology as a new industry standard.

Dr. Nakajima passed a key hurdle last January when the organization's executive board voted 18 to 13 to recommend his re-election.

A key hurdle remains: obtaining bank financing for the project, whose estimated cost is $56 million.

HP's patent addresses one of the key hurdles: getting something as small as a molecule to communicate with today's computers.

Although the plan has passed a number of key hurdles in the approval process, no target starting or completion date has been set for the building.

That was a key hurdle, but the pattern was clear and consistent.

But the ownership committee's approval is often the key hurdle.